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more. On August 3ist I found Erica mackayana, in its most typical 

 form, growing in moderate abundance a little east of the newly built 

 police barrack at Carna. Here it grows in fair quantity along the 

 mountain heath on the way to Lough Sheedagh, and is, as usual, 

 associated with Erica tetralix. On the same ground I gathered some 

 of the forms which appear intermediate between E. mackayana and 

 E. tetralix, and which seem to give some reason for uniting the two 

 plants. These intermediates are much more plentiful about Craigga- 

 more, and are very variable, forming, as it seems to me, a nearly com- 

 plete series from E. tetralix to E. mackayana. I could not find any 

 trace of E. ciliaris at Carna, though the possibility of its occurrence 

 there was kept in mind. Aira uliginosa extends, on the wet mossy 

 bogs and margin cf lakes, throughout Connemara, from Clifden to 

 Oughterard, and Juncus obtusiflorus is its frequent companion. We 

 found Naias flexilis again, sparingly, in Lough Creg-duff, and, as 

 before, in this lake only. 



A NEW VARIETY OF CAMPANULA ROTUNDIFOLIA. 



[ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY PROCEEDINGS, 1876 : " Report on the Flora 

 of Inish-bofin.''] 



Campanula rotundifolia, Linn. ; var. speciosa. A large-flowered 

 and very handsome variety grows among the rabbit-burrows south of 

 the harbour. The stems are from nine to twenty inches high, the leaves 

 broader and more crowded than usual, lanceolate and linear lanceolate 

 on the middle of the stem. Flowers from one to twelve, with a corolla 

 at least an inch long. This plant, in some of its characters, comes near 

 to the variety arctica, figured in " Flora Danica," XVI., Tab. 2711, but 

 has much larger flowers. It also agrees to some extent with a var. 

 lancifolia, described in Hartman's " Skandinaviens Flora," but the 

 stem "is not recumbent. Being apparently distinct from any described 

 variety, I believe this beautiful plant quite deserves a separate name, as 

 var. speciosa, which I here propose for it. 



NAIAS FLEXILIS IN KERRY. 



[JOURNAL OF BOTANY, Nov., 1877.] 



I have to record a second Irish locality for this very rare plant. On 

 the 1 8th of September last, while dragging in Lough Caragh for a 

 fishing-rod which had been dropped overboard the previous evening, I 

 brought up, together with a large mass of Chara flexilis, some bright 

 green fragments, and on close examination I was much pleased to 

 recognise them as Naias flexilis, Rostk., having myself several times 

 collected it in the small lake called Lough Creg-duff, near Roundstone, 



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