126 NOTES OF A TOUR IN IRELAND. 
Of the three Saxifrages which mark the vegetation of the 
south of Ireland, S. wnbrosa is abundant everywhere in the moun- 
tain district ; S. Gewm is much less so, yet it is not rare; but of 
S. hirsuta the quantity is comparatively very small. S. umbrosa 
varies in the form of the leaf, but I did not see any of which the 
blade was so round that I could refer it to Mackay’s S. elegans ; 
nor did I see any of his variety serratifolia. Still less did I 
observe Andrewsii, which perhaps after all is a garden hybrid. 
Euphorbia hiberna and Lastrea Fenisecii are as common in Kerry 
as they are in Cork. 
On the 27th of June I went to Kenmare. The road is a mag- 
nificent one, winding behind the mountains of Turk and Cro- 
mighan, and exhibiting noble views of the lakes, and afterwards _ 
of the estuary of Kenmare and the range of mountains which 
bound Bantry Bay. Next day I crossed these mountains by a 
road which rises still higher than that of the day before. The 
mail cars by which I performed these journeys are not the most 
convenient or comfortable carriages in the world, especially in a 
wet climate; nevertheless they greatly facilitate our rambles in 
these countries, as they are kept up to very small places, where 
one otherwise could not expect to meet any public conveyanee. 
The descent from the summit towards Glengariffe presents a 
most glorious view of Bantry Bay and its neighbouring moun- 
tains. There are two large inns at Glengariffe, about a mile 
apart. I slept at the first, kept by a Mr. Eccles (there are no 
signs to the Irish inns), which seems to be the preferable one, 
though from the other we have a much more extensive view of the 
bay and its surrounding mountains. I walked over Oliver Crom- 
well’s bridge, which is said to have been erected in twenty-four 
hours, and found on it a Hieracium, which perhaps is H. Lawsoni 
of Villars ; but I agree with Koch in thinking the plant of Smith 
to be a different species. A few bristles occur on the back of 
the teeth of the florets, but this is not constant, and this cha- 
racter seems occasionally to be found among the Pulmonariee. 
In the evening Professor Smith and his lady and Mr. Allman 
and his sister jomed me. They had had a long day’s journey, vi- 
siting Googan Barra, a lake at the source of the Lee, and the pass 
of the Cumminer, in the way; but they did not seem to have 
discovered much in botany. The lake furnished Lobelia Dort- 
manna and Isoetes lacustris, both of which occur in many of the 
