158 BOTANICAL NOTES OF A TOUR IN IRELAND. 
into sand-hills. The nearer part, which alone I visited, was very 
unproductive. Triticum junceum is found, | believe, im all such 
places in the south of Ireland; but the most characteristic plant 
is the Iris Pseudacorus, which is scattered about in tufts over 
the sand, the only marked tufts of vegetation to be seen upon it. 
If the hint thrown out by Withering, that the seeds of this Iris 
would be a good substitute for Coffee, the south of Ireland could 
furnish it in abundance. 
The whole western side of Ballinskeligs Bay was covered with 
a thick and well-defined white mist. It looked like cotton-wool, 
or perhaps still more like a vast mass of Boletus lachrymans, and 
when I got to the ferry I could-see no trace of the island of 
Valentia. ° 
Valentia boasts a very comfortable inn, and the charges are 
more than moderate, they are exceedingly low; otherwise I can- 
not say much for Valentia, yet the shores are well varied, and the 
mountains in view, if not of the first rank, are of very respectable 
elevation. Culleen is marked on the semi-ordnance map of 1839 
as 2231 feet in elevation, and to the eye, both on this side and 
from Glanbeigh, Drung, and Coomlancaran, appears to be higher. 
There are several plants, rare elsewhere, which are found abun- 
dantly in the south of Ireland: most of these extend mto Va- 
lentia, but the Pinguicula grandiflora does not, any more than 
the Arbutus Unedo. My only prize was Agrimonia odorata, of 
which there is a considerable quantity by the side of an old road 
near a seat of the Knight of Kerry. Anthyllis Vulneraria varies 
not only with the mixed flowers of purple which we find in 
many places, but also with some altogether of a bright ro: rose- 
colour, and very beautiful.” 
“IT went here into one of the appar ently out-of-the-way National 
schools, but it seems that it is well situated on what is a cen- 
tral position on the island. It was most imconveniently crowded, 
but, as well as I could judge from a very short visit, it was in a 
very satisfactory state, both as regards the master and the scho- 
lars. The latter were all Roman Catholics, but the books lying 
about were exclusively those of the National Society. 
The mountains of the promontory of Dingle form a fine object 
from the northern side of the island when they are free from 
clouds, but this happened only one day during my stay there. 
On the 8th of July I left Valentia, and proceeded in the mail 
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