154 BOTANICAL EXCURSIONS MADE BY 
Wednesday, 25th August 1852. 
- As the wind was favourable and the day fine we started at 
5 a.m. and proceeded to the boat, gathering on the way plants of 
Dabeocia polifolva, We sailed about 6. We hailed a fishing boat 
and got some crabs and lobsters, some of which we boiled on 
board. We also fished for mackerel and got about a dozen 
excellent fish, which served us for breakfast and dinner on the 
island. Landed at Kilronan, in the larger island of Aran, about 
g and went to the house of the boatman, Michael Gill, where we 
had breakfast. Afterwards proceeded with a guide called Pat 
Mullen to visit the island. It is a remarkable limestone island, 
literally paved with stone, with scanty vegetation here and there. 
Crevices between the rocks in which many good plants, especially 
ferns, grow. Walked towards the lighthouse and then went to a 
sandy bay, where we bathed in the Atlantic, crossed the island to 
visit splendid limestone cliffs, about 400 feet high, and the old 
fortification of Dunaengus. Limestone hollowed out in a remark- 
able way into caverns and deep pools. Visited the Seven Churches, 
the ruins of which are seen at a part about 6 miles from Kilronan. 
We had a fine view of County Clare, Galway Bay, Connemara, &c, 
Plants gathered were :-— 
Cerastium arvense Senecio Jacobea (without a 
Arenaria verna ray) | 
Malva sylvestris = Carlina vulgaris 
Geranium sanguineum Lycopus europzeus 
Ulex nanus Marrubium vulgare 
Poterium Sanguisorba Plantago Coronopus (hairy 
Saxifraga affinisP (in abun- var. 
dance on all the rocks) Neottia spiralis (abundant on 
Smyrnium Olusatrum turfy and sandy soil) . 
Haloscias scoticum Sesleria cerulea 
Torilis Anthriscus Juniperus nana 
» nodosa Ceterach officinarum 
Asperula cynanchica e 
_ Adiantum Capillus-Veneris | 
Asplenium marinum 
. ° | All these ferns : were in pro- 
‘3 richomanes . h . : 
” Ruta-muraria usion in the imestgne 
Scolopendrium vulgare crevices. 
Sambucus Ebulus 
