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Some Botanical Notes made during a Tour through a part of 
Ireland in June and July, 1855, with occasional Remarks on 
Scenery, etc., in a Letter to the Editor. By Josupa Woops, 
F.L.S. 
Dear Sir,—I have done so little in Irish Botany, that I fear 
you will think the few observations I have made not worth your 
notice. Such as they are, however, I send them to you, to use 
or neglect at your own good pleasure. 
My first botanical walks were in the neighbourhood of Cork. 
Sedum dasyphyllum still grows on some walls above Sunday’s Well, 
in the neighbourhood of the gaol. Barbarea precox occurs in 
the same vicinity ; and further on, on the Blarney road, Senecio 
squalidus and Geranium rotundifolium. Euphorbia hiberna seems 
to occupy, in the south of Ireland, the place which H. amygda- 
loides does.with us. Lastrea Fenisecii is not uncommon in the 
woods, and sometimes establishes itself on stone walls. On banks 
nearer the river we find Linum angustifolium. 
I went in company with Professor Smith to Kinsale, stopping in 
the way at Blennerhassig, to visit a deep narrow rocky glen, where 
the Ferns in general are very luxuriant, and which offers the first 
station for the Hymenophyllum tunbridgense. Unfortunately a 
heavy rain came on just before we reached the wood, and limited 
our observations. There is no path through the glen, and the 
rocks approach each other so nearly that there is only room for 
the brawling brook. 
We visited Kinsale in hopes of finding some interest in the 
promontory called Kinsale Head, but we were disappointed. At 
its base is a small saudy tract, where however I could find no- 
thing better than Sagina maritima, and some boggy ground ad- 
joining was not more productive. The promontory itself is rocky 
all round, and the immediate shore is hardly anywhere accessible. 
Tn almost the only place where we can descend to it we find Asple- 
nium marinum, avery frequent Fern on the Irish coast. The Head 
is somewhat contracted in the middle, forming as it were two 
joints ; and the isthmus is marked by a cavern running through 
it, and by an old wall above, with towers to defend the further 
portion; but for what purpose this was built it is difficult to say, 
since the enclosure contains no natural landing-place. The light- 
keeper at the lighthouse, a very intelligent man, has made some- 
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