356 FLORA OF IRELAND. [December, 



About a mile nearer the town^ near the roadside^ is found Circaa 

 lutetiana and Fceniculwn officinale, the latter apparently truly wild, 

 at any rate naturalized. Ly thrum Salicaria grows everywhere, by 

 the sides of rivers and streams throughout all Ireland, — at any 

 rate wherever I have been. In Scotland this beautiful plant is very 

 rare; I have only one Scotch specimen from the banks of Loch 

 Lomond. Linar'ia Cymbalm^ia is common on old wall-tops in 

 and about Galway, and frequently in other parts of the country. 

 On an elevated moor, two miles west of Galway, I gathered the 

 following plants : — Menziesia polifolia, Osmunda regalis, Myrica 

 Gale, and Drosera rotu7idifolia ; D. Anylica, in a bog ; Nympliaa 

 alba, in a small loch ; Sparyanium nutans and Utricularia vulga- 

 ris (?) (one of them at least) in peaty pools. Hypericum elodes 

 also grew abundantly in the bog ; the beautiful Menziesia grew 

 luxuriantly, in great profusion, ornamenting this lonely moor with 

 its reddish-purple racemes ; the Myrica Gale covered some acres, 

 looking like a forest on a small scale ; the Ceterach officinarum 

 is in Galway and almost every other county of Ireland, luxuri- 

 ant and abundant. 



I left Galway in July, 1854, and proceeded by rail to Belfast, 

 — a long ride indeed. I saw but few plants, and few one can see 

 from a railway-carriage, so as to be able to distinguish species, 

 yet I could make out that Jasione montana covered in many places 

 the slopes on either side of the railway. I forgot to mention 

 that Senebiera Coronopus and didyma grow abundantly near 

 Galway and Carlow by the waysides, and Stachys germanica, near 

 to the Queen's College at the the former place. At Belfast, near 

 the mouth of the Laggan, in an oozy ditch, grows Butomus um- 

 bellatus plentifully ; and I was informed by Professor Dickie 

 that about a mile and a half further up the river occurred the 

 Typha latifoUa. On the pleasure-grounds in the Botanic Gar- 

 den, grows the Sibthorpia europcRa, and on the precipices of the 

 trap rock of Cave Hill grows parasitic on Thymus Seipyllum 

 the rare and strange-looking Orobanche rubra ; it is frequent, but 

 as far as I saw not plentiful : owing to the precipitous nature of 

 the rocks I could only with considerable difficulty obtain a few 

 specimens. From the crevices of the same rocks grows the Saxi- 

 fraga hypnoides, and near a quarry on the south side of the hill, 

 Lithospermum officinale. Professor Dickie informed me that 

 Trollius europceas is found on this hill. With the exception of 



