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CHAPTER XXXV. 



THIRD VISIT TO ROUNDSTONE. 



[1874.] 



His illness at Mr. Warren's house proved a severe one, 

 and the closing months of the year were a period of much 

 anxiety to his friends. When well enough to leave Moy- 

 view, he went for further rest and change to Llanberis, 

 and subsequently, in October, being still unfit for Museum- 

 work, enjoyed a short tour in Switzerland, visiting Lau- 

 sanne, Diableret, Aigle, &c. But he was still far from 

 well when he returned to Dublin. From this time onward 

 his intervals of ill-health were much more frequent than 

 before, and he was never again equal to the same degree 

 of sustained activity as in former summers. 



He paid his third visit to Roundstone during the earlier 

 part of his holiday in 1874, and discovered a new locality 

 for Erica mackaiana, interesting as being the second in 

 Ireland. But the principal event of this summer was a 

 "field-day" with Professor J. H. Balfour, spent in an 

 organized hunt for another heath the lost Erica ciliaris. 



This heath had grown into a serious puzzle. The latest 

 searcher of Craigga-more had been Professor Babington, 

 who in 1873 revisited Roundstone, but met with no better 

 success in seeking Erica ciliaris than had befallen all other 

 botanists since 1852. So an opportunity of accompanying 

 Dr. Balfour himself to the spot where he believed that he 

 and his party had gathered it in the summer of that year 

 was too good a chance to be missed. 



The expedition came off during the latter part of 

 August, the other members of the party being Professor 

 Dickson, of Glasgow University, and the Rev. A. Nor- 

 man. Rather strangely, there is not a fragment of 

 journal left by Mr. More relating to the period of this 

 tour. But, although its results were inconclusive, he always 



