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garis and Anagallis tenella, but at the same time we are surprised 
to find these plants in so dry a position. We were too early for it, 
but managed to ascertain it in its young state; and Mr. Allman 
writes to me that it has flowered beautifully in his garden. Like 
the Trichomanes, this plant seems in danger of extermination, 
‘but_from entirely different causes. The meadow where it was 
first found has been pared and burned, and all traces of the plant 
have disappeared. On another place some fishermen obtained 
liberty to spread their nets, and the plant was thus destroyed. A 
quantity of the coral-sand which is much used for manure in 
this district was heaped up on a third more limited station. Dr. 
Armstrong says that from time to time he observes it in new 
positions, so there is still some hope for its permanence. 
In some lakes on the way to Castletown we noticed abundance 
of the Lobelia Dorimanna and of Cladium Mariscus. Nymphea 
alba is common in the pools throughout this part of Ireland, but 
I did not anywhere see Nuphar lutewm. 
On Sunday I walked to the upper inn, and to die very small 
church which is just by it, returning by a deep woody and rocky 
glen. I got Botrychiwm in the way, and Carew levigata, which I 
also observed in many other places in the south-west of Ireland. 
On the 2nd of July we descended by a boat to some caves, where 
the Hehini, and especially the E. lividus, are very plentiful. 
Bantry is rich in marine productions. Crithmum maritimum is 
abundant on the rocks, and I found in one or two places a small 
quantity of Carex punctata, which, is I believe, a novelty to the 
Irish flora. 
The next day I left Mr. Smith, who was preparing to examine 
a district with 365 lakes, and returned by the mail cart to Ken- 
mare, proceeding thence immediately to Sneem, where I again 
found C. punctata in greater plenty. Some of the views over the 
Kenmare estuary towards Hungry Hill and the adjoiming moun- 
tains are very fine, but in general the ride will hardly be called 
interesting by those who have just visited Killarney and Bantry 
Bay. I slept at Sneem, and found that I might have slept also 
at Waterville, but I was not tempted to do.so, as Waterville has 
little interest unless we could give up aday to Curraun Lake and 
its neighbouring mountains, which I suppose have the merit of 
being hitherto unexplored by botanists. Nor far from Waterville 
is a considerable tract of’ sand, which can hardly be said to rise 
