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Mount Eagle, 700 feet. 



Ruhus fruticosus, var. viJJicauUs, west and north. 

 Lotus major, Scop. 

 Euphorhia hyherna, Linn. 



Up to this height, on Brandon and elsewhere, occurred also — 



Hypericum androsaemuna, Scirpus fluitans, 



Helosciadium inundatum, Carex sylvatica, 



Bartsia viscosa, C. ovalis, 



Habenaria chlorantha, Arundo phragmites, 



Sparganium minimum, Equise„tum limosum. 



It must be borne in mind that many common plants are omitted 

 from the foregoing list, because they are species which occur on all 

 Irish mountains, and their vertical range in this district has been 

 already exhibited. 



With regard to the Saxifrages of Brandon, the form S. ccespitosa 

 (Linn.) does not occur, nor were any specimens gathered approaching it 

 nearly so closely as those from Connemara of last year. The commonest 

 form of Brandon is S. decipiens, Sm. in the higher alpine situations ; 

 lower down and in richer ground this varies into S. affinis, Don. 

 True S. hypnoides, nor its closest ally S. sponheimica, do not occur. 



II. 



The Knockmeildown and Commeragh mountains lie in the northern 

 portion of the county Waterford, the former on the western boundary 

 and partly in Tipperary, the Commeraghs east and north of these lie 

 entirely in Waterford. 



I visited these mountains in 1882 and again in 1883. Both groups 

 lie in District II. of the Cijlele Sibernica. The Knockmeildown, 

 which rise to a height of 2609 feet, are monotonous in aspect, and 

 have little interest for a botanist. The Commeraghs are picturesque 

 in the extreme, and well worth a visit. They consist chiefly of an 

 elevated plateau broken down on all sides in steep and frequently 

 inaccessible precipices, with many lakes nestling in the Cooms, which 

 give their names to the group, at their bases. The highest point is 

 2597 feet. Both ranges are composed chiefly of sandstone and con- 

 glomerate of Old Red Sandstone Period, shales and slates of Silurian 

 age occurring sparingly. 



These mountains lie within a short distance of the Galtees, which 

 are some four hundred feet higher; they are from ten to twenty 

 miles south of this range, and lie in the same latitude as Brandon, 

 about two degrees westwards. An account of the botany of the Galtee 

 mountains has been already given by me [Proceedings, vol. iii. p. 392). 

 Unless affording some additional information or illustration, I have 



