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feature in the subsequent flora of the northern side of the peninsula, 

 was first gathered. It is very local in Ireland, and has been recorded by 

 Dr. David Moore from Castlegregory, near the present locality. Thrin- 

 cia hirta was gathered here also, and previously in one or two places 

 since Blennerville. The scenery here becomes diversified with pretty 

 little glens descending from the uplands, in which occur holly, Agri- 

 monia eupatorium, and the rose already mentioned, sometimes growing- 

 erect to 9 or 10 feet in height, with a stem an inch and a-half in dia- 

 meter. (Enantlie crocata, rather rare in the west, was also gathered. 

 Along the roadside, on the way up to Camp, I noted Convolvulus 

 arvensis, and on the coast below, Polygonum rail, Solanum dulcamara, 

 var. ma/rinum, which occurred at intervals to CastlegJegory ; Cahile 

 maritima, Eupliorhia lyaralias and Lycoims europceus were also met 

 with. 



Thursday, July 5th. — Castlegregory lies in the south-eastern sinus 

 of a sandy arm, thrust northwards into the sea for about four miles. 

 It boasts of being the largest thatched village in Ireland. I devoted 

 a day to making a circuit of this minor promontory, which corre- 

 sponds well with that of Inch on the southern side. Near the village 

 occur Verbena officinalis and Ononis arvensis, and on the sandhills I 

 found the following species : Aspierula cynanchica, very abundant, and 

 whitening the ground in many places for a considerable area ; Kceleria 

 cristata, Phleitm arenariwn, Arabis hirsuta, Orchis pyramidalis, Sagina 

 nodosa and the Euphorbia and Cerastia already mentioned. In low 

 stony flats, between the sandhills north of Lough Gill, where the 

 Oi'dnance Map marks lakes, but where I saw none, I gathered Eleo- 

 cliaris pauciflora plentifully, not found previously in the southern half 

 of Ireland. I^earer the point, the characteristic sandhill plants, in 

 addition to the Asperula, were Trifolium procumhens. Convolvulus solda- 

 nella, Viola atrtisii, Salsola kali, and by a little fishing-place, Senehiera 

 coronopus. At the extreme point this sandy spit is bound with rocks 

 on which occur Crithmum maritima and Beta maritima abundantly. 

 Outside this low stony limestone point lie the "Magherys," a group 

 of islands well known to Irish archaeologists. I had thought of visit- 

 ing them, but their land-locked position looked too unpromising. 

 Smith, in his History of Kerry already quoted from, speaks of 

 Scrophularia scorodonia, as found near the Magherys on the coast of 

 Tralee Bay. This record is, no doubt, erroneous. Can he have meant 

 the Solanum, which occurs here again? Asplenium marinum also 

 grows along these cliffs, while amongst the most interesting ruins at 

 Eilshannig are Hyoscyamus niger and Carduus marianus. Having 

 given time enough to this rather dull stretch of sandhills, I made 

 for the stream out of Lough Gill, and thence, keeping the river and 

 lake on my left, made a complete circuit. In this lake Dr. Moore 

 found Potamogeton nitens. Close by the stream, near its emboucliure 

 at Lough Gill, I gathered Plysmus rufus in considerable quantity. 

 This is another case of a northern species reaching unusually far 

 south on the west coast of Ireland. Its most southern recorded loca- 



