28 THREE DAYS AT KiLLARNEY. [February, 



found. At Lord Brandon's cottage I and the party wlio accom- 

 panied me were freed from tlie swarm of peasant girls who had 

 followed us from the Gap of Dunloe^ anxious to receive English 

 sixpences in exchange for small draughts of poteen and goat's 

 milk. They were without exception well-looking, civil, and mo- 

 dest, but vastly importunate. From Lord Brandon's cottage I 

 returned by boat down the Upper, Middle, and Lower Lakes, a 

 route which left me free to enjoy the beauties of the surround- 

 ing scenery. The only plant suflBciently near to engage my 

 attention was a Potamogeton, likely P. lanceolatus, Sm. 



June 27th. — This day I was chiefly occupied in observing the 

 flowers and shrubs growing near the margin of the Lower Lake. 

 Dianthus plumarius, L., was growing in considerable quantity on 

 a rocky promontory in front of the Lake Hotel. This one feels 

 instinctively inclined to put down as an introduction ; yet why 

 should not the same feeling exist with respect to Silene inflata, 

 Avhich grows side by side with it? Euonymus europteus I ob- 

 served growing on rocks in the lake. Rosa villosa, Antirrhinum 

 majus, Galium Witheringii, Myosotis versicolor, and others still 

 more common, I collected on the shores ; Helosciadium inunda- 

 timi and other aquatics in ditches running intdf the lake. I saw 

 also in the hands of a gentleman who had ascended Mangerton 

 mountain, some flowers of the Pinguicula grandiflora, and which 

 he called Violets. As I made but few notes of the plants observed 

 during my short stay at Killarney, and for the most part only 

 collected such plants as I had not before, or those of which I 

 wished to have duplicates, I can furnish only a very meagre 

 account of the botanical products of the district through which I 

 passed. Saocifraga elegans, hirsuta, and Aridrewsii I was not so 

 fortunate as to notice ; and others of less name, but still uncom- 

 mon, did not come under my observation. I)ideed, I believe 

 three weeks, instead of three days, should have been occupied in 

 searching out this district, and, from what I have seen of the 

 neighbourhood, believe that I should have reaped a large harvest 

 in return. 



Bayswater, December Mt/t, 1856. 



