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between Letterfrack and Clifden during the journey. We reached 

 Roundstone by way of Clifden, and were comfortably lodged at Mc 

 Auley's. The district thereabouts is full of interest to collectors. 

 There is a notice of plants growing in this district in the ' Phytolo- 

 gist,' by Leslie Ogilby ; also, I believe, in Loudon's ' Magazine of 

 Natural History,' by C. C. Babington. In addition to the plants 

 mentioned by these gentlemen as having been found near Roundstone, 

 we collected Hypericum Androssemum, Asperula cynanchica, Eryn- 

 gium maritimum, Raphanus maritimus, Sparganium natans, Cladium 

 Mariscus, Viola lutea, var. Curtisii, Myriophyllum alterniflorum, a 

 very narrow-leaved variety of Potaraogeton natans, Asplenium Adian- 

 tum-nigrum (a rigid variety), and others. I have already recorded 

 Spergula subulata, Naias flexilis, and one or two of the above. It is 

 very likely that the Naias may be found by careful search in other 

 parts of Galway ; the scraps which I obtained were in a small lake 

 not very far from the village, I quite think floating, or perhaps 

 detached, at the time of my collecting them ; but unfortunately they 

 were put away without either sufficient examination or consideration; 

 it does so happen that we are at times unaccountably deficient even 

 in ordinary observation. 



A long search produced but a very few specimens in flower of Ara- 

 bis ciliata, to the locality of which we had been favoured with direc- 

 tions. In Urrisbeg we did not succeed in finding a single example 

 of Erica Mediterranea in the flowering state ; its season was certainly 

 far past, yet sometimes a few stragglers are found in the rear in such 

 cases. 



We re-found Juniperus nana on Urrisbeg ; a plant, which is probably 

 this species, was also collected near Kylemore Lake. We only found 

 two flowering specimens of an Allium, which is very likely Babingtonii 

 (the Halleri mentioned by L. Ogilby ?), but never having seen authen- 

 tic specimens, I cannot certainly say. Lycopus Europaeus and Ana- 

 gallis tenella grow about Roundstone; my note-book says they are 

 "common enough." From Roundstone we visited Arran, in Galway 

 Bay, and spent part of a day in examining the neighbourhood of Kil- 

 ronan. It is useless my here furnishing a list of the plants which we 

 observed on the island ; most of the remarkable species have been 

 already recorded. L. Ogilby has a few in the ' Phytologist,' and there 

 is a notice by W. Andrews in the ' London Journal of Botany ' of 

 species noticed by him. Besides many of the plants of South Arran 

 mentioned by these gentlemen and noticed by us, we collected Aspi- 

 dium angulare. Beta maritima. Geranium purpureum, Forst., an 



