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as an "off-time" subject the botany of the east coast of 

 Ireland ; and one of his first expeditions, about midsum- 

 mer, was a walk from Wicklovv to Greystones, at the 

 beginning of which, while examining a stretch of " short 

 sandy pasture " near Wicklow town, he lighted on one of 

 the coast-loving clovers he had so much missed (as a 

 group) in rambles by the Irish shores Trifolium subter- 

 raneum, long familiar as a plant of St. Helen's Spit, which 

 he had now the pleasure of adding to the Flora of Ireland. 

 Other walks, taken in July and August, were, from Arklow 

 to Wicklow, from Malahide to Rush, and from Gormans- 

 town to Drogheda. On the two latter excursions he was 

 much pleased to find at several points the rare snail Helix 

 pisana, for which he had unsuccessfully searched near 

 Portmarnock in 1854. He now got it " (i), at the N. end of 

 Portrane sands; (2), on the rabbit warren S. of Rush; 

 (3), a little N. of Gormanstown ; and (4), on the sandhills 

 towards Maiden Tower." Between Arklow and Wicklow 

 he set himself to trace the northward ranges, in particular, 

 of Juncus acutus and Equisetum moorei, and was interested 

 to find that both ended almost at the same point, near 

 Seapoint House. 



For his summer holiday he went with his sister to 

 Switzerland, to revisit scenes where his love of nature had 

 been first awakened, and here three delightful weeks 

 (Sept 6th-26th) were spent. From Neufchatel, where the 

 first halt was made, they visited Yvonand, the home of his 

 early boyhood under the roof of M. Germond ; and by 

 favour of the new occupants took a minute survey, both 

 inside and outside of the little Swiss manse. Then on to 

 Lucerne, for the ascent of the Rigi (on whose summit, a 

 mile above sea-level, Colias hyale, the " clouded sulphur 

 butterfly," was seen disporting itself). From Interlaken, 

 associated with his " first pretty butterfly," a walk was 

 taken to the mill-stream in whose milky waters he had, as 

 a child, narrowly escaped drowning. It was easily iden- 

 tified, and one plant of Cystopteris fragilis gathered, " in 

 memoriam," from the brink. On the i;th they reached 

 Lausanne. Here it was decided to stay a week, largely for 

 the sake of the district's well-remembered associations. 



