40 Alexander Goodman More. [1354 



spots"*); Galium verum ; Arenaria serpyllifolia : two 

 species of willow ; Juncus supinus ; Equisetum variega- 

 tum ; Orchis latifolia ; and " Epipactis palustris, I think 

 was here, too." 



On March yth, leaving Liverpool with his sister, he set 

 out for his third visit to Ireland. This time it was to 

 Loughgall (Mr. R. Cope's residence) in county Armagh, 

 a part of Ireland very different in character from the lime- 

 stone plains of the West. And here were spent the three 

 months of the beautiful spring of 1854. For notwithstand- 

 ing the intense severity of part of the recent winter, the 

 spring was turning out a singularly forward one. The 

 rapid advance of vegetation since the melting of the snow 

 had been manifest even in January, by the end of which 

 month he had noticed, in the Yorkshire woods, " great 

 numbers of primroses in flower, and on reverting to their 

 usual companion the Potentilla Fragariastrum (Barren 

 strawberry) I was much pleased at recognizing two of its 

 little white stars in the centre of a dense tuft of foliage." 

 By the 8th of March, when Loughgall was reached, Wood 

 anemones, Dog violets, and daffodils were found to be in 

 flower ; and now in rapid succession followed butterbur 

 (Petasites vulgaris), ground-ivy (Glechoma hederacea), 

 mar shf marigold (Caltha palustris), blackthorn (Prunus 

 spinosa), wood -rush (Luzula campestris), wood - sorrel 

 (Oxalis acetosella), goldilocks (Ranunculus auricomus), 

 and the wild cherries (Prunus cerasus and P. avium), all 

 during March ; the wood strawberry (Fragaria vesca), 

 blue-bell (Hyacinthus non-scriptus), stitchwort (Stellaria 

 holostea), cotton-grass (Eriophorum angustifolium), and 

 cuckoo-flower (Cardamine pratensis) in the opening days 

 of April besides the curious toothwortf discovered " in 

 free flower" on April ist; then came the hedge-garlic 

 (Erysimum alliaria), cuckoo-pint (Arum maculatum), 

 bog-bean (Menyanthes trifoliata), germander speedwell 



* It is chiefly on the golfers' " putting-greens " that the Grass of Parnassus 

 now flourishes at Crosby. 



t " In afternoon Mama and F. discovered a large bed of Lathrsea in free 

 flower, growing very closely crowded." Diary, April 1st, 1854. This is still 

 the only County Armagh station known. 



