Mr. J. Ball's Botanical Notes of a Tour in Ireland. 35 



ing from Currough-na-Gorragh, a small lake at a considerable 

 elevation on the mountain, I gathered Melampyrum montanum, 

 and a concave Nephrodium which I have already mentioned. 

 I also found here a species of Epilobium with downy fruit 

 somewhat alhed to E. alpinum ; it corresponds accurately with 

 the description of E. nutans in Reichenbach's ' Flora Excur- 

 soria Germanica/ and Professor Don considers it identical with 

 that plant. On the rocks above Currough-na-Gorragh I ob- 

 ser\^ed a variety oi Saxifraga stellaris with a large spreading pa- 

 nicle, the leaves covered with long dense hairs larger and more 

 deeply cut than in the ordinary state of the plant. Saoeifraga 

 umbrosa /3. (S. punctata, Haworth), is abundant on this and all 

 the other mountains in this part of Ireland. Between New- 

 port and Castlebar I noticed Nepeta Cataria, probably not 

 indigenous, growing to the height of three or four feet. The 

 limestone district on the banks of Lake Carra near Castlebar, 

 is exceedingly productive in rare plants ; on the north-eastern 

 shore neai' Moore Hall I found Gentiana verna in frniit, a 

 dwarf red-flowered variety of Gentiana Amarellay Gnaphalium 

 dioicum, Thalictrum minus, sometimes growing to a large size 

 and approaching very near to T. majus, Galium boreale in 

 great luxuriance, &c. To the west of this point I found 

 Neottia spiralis and Eguisetum variegatum. On a point of 

 low rocky land called Derrynany, I found Rhamnus catharti- 

 cus and frangula, both very rare in Ireland ; Rubia peregrinaj 

 Euonymus europceu^, and a fern in abundant fructification but 

 with the capsules all burst, probably a Nephrodium^ in which 

 case it is aUied to N. thelypteris, but differs in its very rigid 

 habit, and in having the pinnules finely serrated and wanting 

 the characteristic depression of the two lower pinnae. 



Near Delphi in Morrisk I noticed Lycopodium selaginoides 

 with Saxifraga umbrosa, and Daboecia (Menziesia, Sm.) poli' 

 folia in great abundance, as also Anthemis nobilis, which is a 

 rare plant in Ireland. In a walk across the district lying 

 between the Mamturk mountains and the group called the 

 Twelve Pins, I gathered several of the peculiar plants of this 

 district, as Eriocaulon septaugulare, Utricularia minor and in- 

 termedia, &c. : also on rocks in the bed of the river above 

 Lough Inagh, Galium boreale, Thalictrum minus, and Hiera~ 



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