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XXV. 



EEPOET OS THE ATTSCT AXD HEPATIC-E OE THE 

 COrXTT C-iVAX. By DAVID M-AEDLE. Plaixs XXI.. 

 XXII.) 



(cOinnrNTCATED BY FEEDEEICX "nTLLIAM: MOOEE.) 

 [Eead JAxrAKY 10, 1898.] 



Herewith I beg to submit to the Royal Irish Academy, on behaH of 

 their Irish Flora and Fauna Committee, the result of a botanical 

 excursion to the county Cavan, which extended from the 7th to the 

 nth October, 1893. 



The first day was spent on Slieve Glah, a small mountain on the 

 N.E. side of the town, from which it is about four miles distant. It 

 gradually elevates to 10-57 feet. I also dredged the adjacent lakes. 



The most conspicuous plant on the mountain was Lycopoiium cla- 

 vafum, which grows in some quantity near the summit, trailing over 

 the bare peat, to which it was fi:xed by remarkably strong flagelli- 

 form roots. Though this plant is included in district 10 of the " Cybele 

 Hibemica," there is no locality named for the county Caran. Some 

 interesting mosses and liverworts were also collected. The season 

 for flowering plants was over, but I gathered Achillea Ptarmica, 

 which grows sparingly on the mountain with Crepi's vi'rens and Hie- 

 racium piloseUa; and Polygonum persicaria, by the roadside, as I 

 ascended, still continued in bloom. Some good collecting was done 

 on the shores and in the plantations about Lough Cultra. The water- 

 plants were mostly decayed, and the dredge only brought their 

 remains and Jv.ncu^ supinus which was floating in the lough. In 

 bogholes near the town, Potatnogeton pimllus was plentiful. This is 

 an addition to district 10 in the " Cybele Hibemica." 



I spent a day collecting about the shores and woods of Lough 

 Oughter ; one of a chain of lakes which occupy a considerable portion 

 of the centre of the county. It is a very picturesque district, and 

 only wants mountains to complete the beauty of the scenery. The 

 lakes slope gradually from the shore, margined with Phragmitis 

 communis and Equisefum paJmtre ; and on the eastern side, backed 



