98 DIXGLE AND ITS FLORA. [.^Oy, 



weather was too calm dttrmg mr star to reward my searcli for 

 A1g(B. There was a profasion of the larger Melanospermea, 

 such as Fuci, Laminaria, Chord<e, Himanthalia : more sparingly 

 Cysioseira fibrosa, Ag., Desmarestia aculeata, Lamoxur., Aspei'o- 

 coccus ? There was a fair quantity of some of the more common 

 Rhodospermeee, of the genera Delesseria, CTiondrus, Plocamium, 

 Laurencia, Polysiphonia, and Cera mi urn. Of the CMorospermea 

 I found nothing; save what may be gathered on almost any 

 rocky coast. 



The mountain district to the north of Dingle will yield the 

 most abnndant harvest to the botanist. To this tract I devoted 

 two days : on the first of these "days I intended to explore Con- 

 nor Hill, one of the recorded localities for Sajy'^aga hirsuta, L.; 

 bnt being without a guide. I. by mistake, ascended a mountain 

 lying to the eastward, and so failed in obtaining any specimens 

 of the above-named plant. The course I pursued was along the 

 edge of a mountain-stream, well famished with Scirpus fluitans, 

 L. In this dav's ramble I gathered or observed Viola palustris, 

 L.. but not in flower, Saxifraga umbrosa, L., S. steUaris, L., 

 Orchis latifoUa, L.. Habenaria bifolia, Br., Myrica Gale, L., 

 Juncus supimts, Moench, EriopJwrurn vaginatum, L., and angusti- 

 folium, Rh., Carer pduUfera, L., Aira fiexuosa, L., % caryo- 

 pkyllea, L., C. pr(£cox, L., Triodia deciunbens, Beauv., Koeleria 

 cr'istata, Pers., Molinia carulea, Moench, Festuca brornoides, L., 

 F. tinparOj Sm., Lastrea gland ulosa, Xewm., and L. foenisecii, 

 Wats. Had there been less to reward my toil in the vegetable 

 productions, the view fix>m the summit of the mountain had 

 been in itself a sumcient recompense. To the north lay the 

 beautiful expanses of Tralee and Brandon Bays, and to the south 

 the still more magnificent Dingle Bay, with Talentia Island in 

 the distance. The lofty Brandon, with its gloomy valley of Arra 

 Glyn, a noble example of mountain scenery, filled up the picture 

 to the west. But Brandon, though so commanding at a dis- 

 tance, lias beauties of its own to repay those who ascend its lofty 

 summit. Its height is 31.26 feet, being the highest but one 

 of the Irish mountains, and it is of comparatively easy as^^nt, 

 free from risk, and requires only stout limbs and a persevering 

 will. The view from the summit is indescribably magnificent. 

 In'^what I may call the more distant foreground, looking to the 

 south and west, lay the extremity of the Dingle promontory, in- 



