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to cut off a piece of mj next day's walk round' Hook Head, which 

 looked somewhat alarming. About Fethard I gathered Scandix 

 pecten-veneris, Tanacetii.m vulgare, Lychnis githago, Apium graxeo- 

 lens, J'uncus gkmcus, and (Enanthe crocata. South of Fethard, by 

 the roadside, Chenopodium honus-henricus occurs. Along the coast, 

 which is here of low slabs and schistose cliffs to Baginbun Head, 

 I gathered Sarothamnus scoparius, Crithmum maritimum, Atriplex 

 angustifolia, Statioe occidentalis, Chlora perfoUata, Enpatorium can- 

 nahinum, Ejnlohium hirsutmn, and Equisetum maximum. Statice 

 occidentalis has not been previously gathered nearer than Arklow 

 in Wicklow to the north, and Tramore in Waterford to the west. 

 At Baginbun Head, Inula crithmoides occurs with Statice occiden- 

 talis again. The promontory of Hook appears to have never been 

 visited by a botanist. A little south of Baginbun, Ulex eicropceus 

 and Ulex nana, both decorate the coast, the latter being hence- 

 forward a prominent coast species. On dry banks along here I 

 found Senehiera didyma, afterwards a prevalent species. From 

 Carnivan Head I returned by road to Fethard. 



On the 1st of August, I took up the coast again at Carnivan 

 Head. The cliffs are now somewhat steeper, 50 to 100 feet in 

 height, of a red horizontally- stratified sandstone and conglomerate. 

 Along here, choughs and rock-pigeons were met with ; of the 

 former, perhaps, their most eastern locality in Ireland, except in 

 the north. On the margin of these cliffs, on grassy banks a little 

 south of Carnivan, I gathered Trifolium scabriim in an intermediate 

 station between Youghal and Wicklow, its nearest previously- 

 known habitats. A very glaucous form of Dactylis glomerata, 

 which I have gathered on Mweelrea, in Mayo, grows here plenti- 

 fully. About Sandeel Bay, I first met with Ruhia peregrina, 

 afterwards becoming frequent. Howth, in Dublin, and Tramore, 

 were its nearest known stations. Euphorbia exigua and Hyoscyamus 

 niger were noticed along Sandeel Bar. Here the sandstone con- 

 glomerate is overlaid by a highly fossiliferous carboniferous lime- 

 stone. Polygonum raii grows along here commonly to Patrick's 

 Bay ; and nearer to Churchtown, Inula crithmoides and Statice 

 occidentalis again appear. The former is very plentiful on the low 

 rocky coast, right round the long, narrow point of Hook, and at 

 the very point Statice occidentalis is abundant. 



