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is all dried up by the beginning of autumn. The other ferns noticed near Cork were 

 Scolopendrium, Aspleniura Ruta-muraria, Trichomanes and Adiantum-nigruni, Las- 

 tr£ea Filix-mas, Athyrium Filix-femina, Polypodium vulgare, Lomaria spicant and 

 Polystichum aculeatum. 



from Cork Mr. W. took the mail to Bantry, passing through Bandon, about four 

 miles from which Trichomanes speciosum grows more strongly than near Cork, but 

 still is always barren. About Bandon and Innishannon the Polypody grows abun- 

 dantly on walls, attaining a very large size, and much of it, Mr, W. believed, would 

 turn out to be proliferous. About the rocky roads and salmon-streams of this neigh- 

 bourhood, the common Filix-mas and Filix-femina grew more luxuriantly than Mr. 

 W. had ever seen elsewhere. 



Further on, at Clonakilty, Erica vagans and Mackaii are said to grow. Between 

 Skibbereen and Bantry, and indeed in all the mountainous parts of Cork and Kerry, 

 Lomaria spicant is the most abundant of ferns. 



At Bantry Mr. W. took Mr. Newman' Irish Notes in his hand, and strolled out 

 to see Lord Bearhaven's seat and park. The Irish variety of the Polypody was found 

 growing as described, on the park-wall ; and on ascending the hill from which Mr. N. 

 watched the sunset over the bay, with its bright islands and mountain coast, he start- 

 led a flock of curlews from their daily resting-place, which is usually occupied at night 

 by the rooks and jackdaws. In a belt of plantation below this hill there is abundance 

 of Polystichum angulare, Lastrasa Filix-mas and dilatata, Athyrium Filix-femina and 

 Lomaria spicant ; and the hill itself is half covered with Pteris, which does not usual- 

 ly abound, or attain its customary luxuriance in the south of Ireland. Following the 

 example of Mr. Newman, Mr. W, took a boat and crossed the bay to GlengarifT; and 

 the next day walked on to Kenmare, missing Hungry-hill and the Menziesia polifolia, 

 as he was anxious to spend a day with Dr. Taylor at Dunkerran castle. In GJengariff 

 he found both species of Hymenophyllum, a profusion of Osmunda, Lastraea dilatata 

 and dumetorum, Lomaria, Filix-femina, Pteris and Polypody, but no Trichomanes, 

 although several botanists have tried to introduce it there. There are fine woods of 

 birch, hawthorn. Arbutus, ^c, around the hotel of GlengarifT; and the hills around 

 are covered with peat to their summits, so as to render the new mountain road with its 

 tunnel far from unwelcome. The rocks by the road-side were everywhere covered with 

 Polytrichum urnigerum in fructification ; and Saxifrages and Sedums were all out of 

 fruit. Much of the grass on the rocks (Festuca ovina ?) is viviparous; but except the 

 blue Jasioue and Erica Tetralix, there were few flowers remaining even in the beoin- 

 ning of August. Mosses, Jungermannias and Lichens abound everywhere. Dr. 

 Taylor named the following : — 



Trichostomum polyphyllum and fascicu- Hypnum ruscifolium. Rills and springs, 

 lare. Rocks. Polytrichum commune, gracile, abides, 



lanuginosum. Mountain. juniperinum. Rocks. 



Entosthodon Templetoni. Rocky streams. Weissia heteromalla. Ditto. 

 Hypnum flagellare, breviroslre. Woods. Dicranum flexuosum. Mountains. 



Usnea florida, Parmelia caperata, Spheerophoron compressum, Scyphophorus pyx- 

 idatus, Cenomyce uncialis, Jungermannia nemorosa, cochleariforrais, albicans, Taylori 

 and tomentella. 



In company with Dr. Taylor, Mr. W. went to Blackwater-bridge, which is a fa- 

 mous cryptogamic garden of Dr. T.'s ; and there he pointed out species innumerable 

 of Jungermannia, Marchantia, Sticta, Hypnnm, Hookeria, Pterogonium, Bryum Sec 



