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terrible storms of September and October, 1881. Perhaps she was 

 right, since the plant grows on the margin of the tide. The 

 trudging for miles along the heavy shingly shore at the base of 

 the limestone cliffs, between Kilfarrasy Island and Annestown 

 was a thing never to be forgotten. On the other hand, the first 

 few miles along the cliffs south of Tramore is as thoroughly enjoy- 

 able a sea-coast walk as one could wish to repeat. At Kilfarrasy 

 Island I gathered Trifolium arvense, a very thinly- distributed 

 species in its native stations, but one which increases quickly on 

 light sandy cultivated soil near the sea. Here it occurred sparingly 

 on steep banks. On the sheer limestone cliffs just mentioned 

 Raphanus maritimus is a very characteristic species. I have not 

 seen it so satisfactorily a member of the flora in any other district. 

 At Annestown, a small and very prettily- situated group of cot- 

 tages, I was hospitably entertained at lunch by Mrs. Palliser, wife 

 of Major Palliser, the owner of the soil, who saw me from their 

 dwelling-house near by, searching the village for refreshment, 

 and, with thoroughly appreciated kindness, invited me in. Along 

 banks above the sea, at Dunabrattin Bay and about Annestown, 

 SeneUera didyma looks wild enough. Inula crithmoides and Rubia 

 peregrina both occur at Dunabrattin Head, and here again I 

 met with the chough. About half way between Annestown and 

 Knockmahon Statice occidentaUs and Raphanus maritimus were again 

 observed, the latter abundantly. The rock is chiefly a slaty lime- 

 stone, and nearer to Bunmahon, where mining operations to a 

 great extent were formerly carried on, gives place to red hematite, 

 &c. Near the shore here, in a swamp, I gathered OEnanthe fistulosa, 

 a plant I seldom meet with, though said to be frequent. At Bun- 

 mahon, a melancholy wreck of deserted cottages, heaps of rub- 

 bish, disused rails, mining shoots and properties of all kinds, I 

 found a remarkably spinous form of Ononis arvensis, large and 

 erect, and readily liable to be mistaken for 0. campestris. A little 

 beyond Bunmahon Rubia peregrina is very abundant. 



August 3. Beyond Bunmahon the coast is precipitous, and 

 beautifully diversified with bays, stacks, and pinnacled islets. The 

 cliffs here are for the most part sheer, 200 to 300 feet in height. 

 The rock is at first a dark slaty rock, and then red conglomerate, 

 probably of the Old Bed Sandstone formation. These cliffs are 



