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more woilliy of a botanical pilgrimage ? A stream rises iu and tates 

 its course through the valley, spreading and ramifying to some dis- 

 tance on either side, and along this stream the heath runs for a mile 

 or so ; it grows in tufts, and you step from one of these to the other, 

 and I remarked that the plant never leaves the influence of the water. 

 Glan Iskey is accessible without any difficulty, and nothing can be 

 more appropriate than its Irish appellation, the watery glen or valley. 

 I also paid more than one visit to Craigga More (the large rough hill), 

 a most conspicuous hill on the new road to Clifden. This is the first 

 described habitat of the Erica Mackaiana, and here, indeed, it grows 

 in profusion along the road-side, appearing at this time, 23rd August, 

 in all its perfection and loveliness. As I have much to detail to you 

 respecting this singular plant, I shall defer saying more respecting it 

 to another time. It was on one of my trips to this locality that I 

 found Rhynchospora fusca, and Peplis Portula, and found every 

 boggy ditch green, or rather bronzed, with the Utricularia minor. 

 Looking from the hill of Craigga More, on the one hand towards 

 Unisbeg mountain, and on the other in the direction of the Twelve 

 Pins, there appears a perfect maze of lakes ; what a field for the 

 young and enterprising botanist ! At some of these small lakes T saw 

 several men employed raking out the white water-lily, the roots of 

 which they use as a dye in some of their simple, home-wrought ma- 

 nufactures. East of Roundstone, at about half-a-mile distant, between 

 the old road to Clifden and the sea, are some interesting little lakes. 

 They are like bowls, appearing sunk beneath small rocky hills. These 

 small lakes abound with the Eriocaulon, Lobelia Dortmanna being 

 comparatively rare. On these small rocky hills I picked some beau- 

 tifully coloured varieties of the Menziesia. On crossing over the bay 

 of Roundstone to the long, straggling island of Innisnee, lying oppo- 

 site the town, and dividing Roundstone bay from that splendid ex- 

 panse of water, called Birterbuy bay, I found during my ramble a splen- 

 did plant of the white variety of the Menziesia. This was the first time 

 during all my wanderings in this country that I ever found this variety. 

 In an old church-yard on the island I found Inula Helenium or ele- 

 campane, and as I never but once before found the plant, and then in 

 a kindred situation (Whaley Abbey, in the county Wicklow), I am led 

 to suppose it in former times connected with religious feeling or ob- 

 servance. 



On the 3rd of September I left Roundstone for the island of Arran 

 (Arran More), about twenty miles distant, accompanied by my friend, 

 ]\Ir. B. We left at 11 o'clock in the morning, but being beset with a 



