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Poa alpinal could discover, excepting, perhaps, Poa annua. Saxifraga 

 umhrosa and S. liirta (vars. ajfinis and clecijnens) occurred. At the 

 head of the valley above the two small lakes north of Coomaknock 

 Lake is good alpine ground. Alchemilla alpina is frequent. Lower 

 down I gathered Listera cordata. I afterwards found this northern 

 orchid in several different places. This is the third case of a Scottish 

 species finding a home far south. Its most southern known Irish 

 range was in Wicklow. I have, however, also discovered it in the 

 Waterford mountains. In the same valley I gathered Hieracium an- 

 glicivm. On reaching Castlegregory I was received with a reproachful 

 welcome. The inhabitants, unused to such vagaries, had concluded 

 that as I had not returned to my dinner I must needs be lost on the 

 mountains, and had searched for me far into the night with an honest 

 and entirely unmerited assiduity for my welfare. I was just in time 

 to disorganize a renewed expedition. 



On the 7th July I examined the coast from Castlegregory to 

 Cloghane. Before doing so I called on Dr. Busted, who told me of 

 one or two localities for Triehovianes radicans (Killarney fern). He 

 also believes that Du ISToyer told him of the maiden-hair growing on 

 Cahirconree by one of the streams above Archdeacon Howan's cottage. 

 This would probably be Andrews' station, as given in the Cyhele 

 Hibernica, and the most southern in Ireland ; I failed to find it there 

 in 1881. Speaking of the Killarney fern, he remarked that it grew 

 in plenty in several places where it is now exterminated, from twenty 

 to ten years ago. The few remaining habitats with which I became 

 acquainted are carefully preserved, by Lord Yentry, on whose property 

 they are, and through whose kindness, and that of the liev. Mr. 

 Anderson of Dingle, I got directed to them. The range of Silthorpia 

 europma is also well known to these gentlemen ; and these species and 

 the neighbourhood of their known habitats I rather avoided, endea- 

 vouring to reach the unvisited parts of the promontory. 



Continuing my coast exploration, or rather that of the marshy 

 murrough west of Lough Gill, parallel to the sea, I kept along the 

 edges of a most treacherous dyke in a floating bog for a few miles. 

 It is the dr^ain or stream which runs into the lake at the S. W. corner. 

 Near the lake I gathered Scitpus savii, Carex teretriuscula, and Gymna- 

 denia conopnea in new localities. All along the coast here on the dry 

 sandy pastures, Asperula cynnnchica is the special feature in the vegeta- 

 tion. The rayless Senecio jacohcea [flosculosus) occurs as usual in such 

 places. Along this most impracticable stream, where wading, swim- 

 ming, and walking were alike unsafe, I gathered Utricularia vulgaris, 

 Rumex liydrolapathum, Potamogeton pusiUus, Potamogeton nutans (in its 

 bog-hole membranous-lanceolate-leaved flowerless variety), Carex vul- 

 pina, Ranunculus lingua, Veronica scutellata, and ^parganium simplex. 

 Nearer Femoyle, Carex remota, C. extensa, and the two CEnanthes 

 occur: and in thickets on a headland, before striking up Cloghane 

 estuary, I found Carex fulva, C. Icevigata, and C. pallescens. Of these 

 plants, Ranuncula lingua is the rarest, not having been recorded from 



