
NEW STATION FOR LECANORA RUBRA. 159 
cart from Cahirciveen to Glanbeigh. The ascent along the valley 
would be very pleasant if it were not so naked; but in the second 
part of the ride the view across Dingle Bay, and of the moun- 
tains which bound it, is truly magnificent. The third part, de- 
scending another fine valley to Glanbeigh, is also pleasant. The 
inn is not properly at Glanbeigh, although within the district so 
called, but at Rossbeigh, about half-way between the Glen Bay of 
the map and Carra. The immediate neighbourhood has nothing 
to recommend it, but in fair weather the mountains beyond the 
bay form a noble object. I walked im the evening to the range 
of sand hills which separate Castlemaine Haven from the open 
waters of Dingle Bay, where a thunder-storm overtook me and 
gave me a thorough wetting. The plants were only Triticum 
junceum, Euphorhia Paralias, Alsine peploides, and other marine 
plants still more common. Castlemaine harbour abounds in a 
small Zostera, which is however, I believe, only a variety of the 
common one. The district between Castlemame harbour and 
Rossbeigh yielded’ me nothing; it is, like a great deal of this 
neighbourhood, a bed of gravel covered with a skin of peat. 
Where the peat remains it may not form the best of soils, but 
in these circumstances it produces something; and I see upon it 
at times very promising crops of oats and of potatoes, but the 
bared gravel produces nothing. On talking to a farmer on the 
road he said the only way to reclaim such land was to remove 
most of the peat, and turn up the gravel to a considerable depth, 
adding at least a hundred barrels of lime to the acre. The men- 
tion of barrels shows that the lime must be an expensive article. 
(Lo be continued.) 
New Station for Lecanora rubra, Ach. (Lichen Ulmi, Swartz). 
By Guo. Dixon, of Ayton, near Stokesley, Yorkshire. 
Anxious to visit the oolitic formation of Yorkshire, hoping 
the limestone of that series would yield species of Lichens not to 
be met with on our Cleveland lias, or the basaltic dyke that 
runs through it, I proceeded, a few weeks ago, in company with 
my friend W. Mudd, down Bilsdale, to the magnificent ruins of 
Reivaulx. We were both much disappointed in our expectations ; 
