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figured by an unfinished, ill-engineered, and unnecessary road cutting, 

 whicli is balanced on the vertically-placed edges of tbe slate forma- 

 tion, so that it is ever-toppling over and sliding outwards into the 

 sea. No doubt ]S"ature will eventually assert and restore her beauty. 

 Along this coast there are no plants of interest. The springy sward is 

 composed chiefly of stunted phanerogams closely adpressed to the ground. 

 The air is bracing in the extreme, there being, as I felt, a marked 

 difference in favour of Smerwick Harbour and the northern side as 

 compared with Dingle. The cliff scenery is bold and rugged, but 

 neither precipitous nor grand, and is the haunt of those fowls which 

 breed mostly on shelving rocks, such as the oystercatcher, whose 

 noisy and varied, loud and breathless song, resounded above the surge. 

 The flattened sod in the most exposed places consisted of Euplirasia 

 officinalis, Eleocliaris multicaulis, and E. palustris, Salix re-pens, Molinia 

 cceridea, Thymus serpyllum, Potentilla tormentilla, Arnieria, Sydro- 

 cotyle, AnagaUis tenella, Rumex acetoseUa, and Sedum anglicum. At 

 Dunmore Head I meditated a swim to the Blasquets, about an English 

 mile, but the current appeared impracticable. Near here I noticed 

 Senebiera covonoims, which is rare in the west. 



On the 16th I left Ballynagall, and crossing east by Kilmalkedar 

 I examined Ballinloghig Lough or Crawley's Lake, as it is called in 

 the country. On old walls about Kilmalkedar I gathered some in- 

 teresting Scolopendrium sports, and close by the beautiful little ruined 

 church Scrophtdaria aquatica was again met with. At the lake, "with 

 commoner plants, occurred Cladium mariscus, Scidellaria minor, Spar- 

 ganium simplex, and TJtricidcuria minor. At Ballinloghig Anthemis 

 nobilis is very common. From here I went up the glen east to 

 Gearhane, in order to get the westward elevations of plants in the 

 middle portion of the range, and crossed down to the lakes and swamps 

 at the base of Connor Hill, chiefly to look for Rhynchospiora fusca, 

 which I failed altogether to find. Along the southern margin of 

 Lough Gal, I met with Sparganium minimimi, Carex pcdlescens, and 

 Mieracum vidgatimi in one place very sparingly. Hymenophijllum tun- 

 Irigense was seen several times in the day. In the evening I made 

 my way into Dingle, where I had a visit from the E.ev. Mr. Anderson, 

 who kindly gave me some information about the ferns and rarities of 

 the district. 



On the 17th, a long and weary day's work brought me round the 

 coast by a lofty and steeply-sloping series of headlands to Annis- 

 caul. Near Dingle, at the mouth of the harbour, cormorants and 

 black guillemots have nesting places. Here I searched unsuccessfully 

 for Carex punctata, formerly gathered by Mr. Oliver ; Erodiiini mos- 

 chatum occurs close by. On rounding the outer point into Trabeg, I 

 came to low, sandy banks, which looked promising. I gathered here 

 Aralis hirsuta, and with it Aralis ciliata. Of the latter I have no doubt, 

 but owing to the abominable inconveniences I met with at Anniscaul, 

 my specimens of the day were all lost. A little further up, Euphorhia 

 porilanclica was again met with, and in the wide tract of rushy and 



