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inhabited by tlie peregrine falcon. Their margins are gay with 

 Scotch heather, dwarf furze, lady's finger, sea pink, and campion. 

 Gentiana campestris was noticed as being very large. The travel- 

 ling here was very laborious, and the weather had become oppres- 

 sively hot. Headland and inlet in succession made the coast line 

 beautiful no doubt, but very difficult to examine. At Bally- 

 dowane Bay I gathered Ruhia peregrina, Trifolium arvense; and 

 a little west of it, by a small stream, Osmunda regalis and 

 Sahenaria viridis : nearer to Stradbally, Equisetum maximum 

 and Artemisia ahsynthium were noted. On the cliffs west of 

 the inlet below Stradbally, Ligustrum milgare is abundant in 

 perfectly native situations. It would, I believe, be hypercriti- 

 cism to challenge the privet's claim to a place in the native 

 flora of Ireland. It extends along the coast here for about half 

 a mile, commencing a quarter of a. mile west of the Stradbally 

 inlet, and appears again in many places to Ballyvoyle Head. 

 It grows in a semi-prostrate tangled form on the steepest and 

 most inaccessible parts of the cliffs, where there are patches of 

 soil. I have not seen privet native elsewhere in Ireland except at 

 Howth, but Dr. Wright found it under similar conditions nearer 

 to Tramore. At the Stradbally inlet I saw Orohanche hederce and 

 CarUna vulgaris. With the privet, Rubia peregrina has become 

 very abundant along the coast to Ballyvoyle Head. Raphanus 

 maritimus and Inula crithmoides still occur. By a small stream 

 a little east of Ballyvoyle Head, I noticed Lepidium smithii, 

 Lycopus europceus, Agrimonia eiqjatorium, Carex remota, and JEupa- 

 torium cannabinum. On Ballyvoyle Head, east side, Ficia 

 ' sykatica grows abundantly; on the west side, towards Ballyvoyle 

 Bridge, Senebiera didyma, Carduus pycnocephaliis, and Artemisia 

 absynthium are plentiful. I had now reached the lowlands 

 again, and was well pleased to see a considerable marsh be- 

 tween me and Dungarvan, which would afford at once rest and 

 variety. I found the flora of this marsh very interesting ; it is a 

 small murrough, similar to that at Kilcoole, on the coast of Wick- 

 low, but less extensive. It lies in the parish of Clonea, inland 

 and eastward from Clonea castle. It does not appear to have 

 been examined by a botanist previously to my visit. On the sea- 

 ward edge I noticed (Enanllie lacUenalii and Carex vulpina. In 



