Hart — Flora of the Mountains of Mayo and Gahcay. 705 

 Westeen Slope — continued. 



Antennaria dioica i ^w 

 Lycopodium selago 



1240 feet. 



Arctostaptylos uva-ursi 



(lower limit). 



1000 feet. 

 Empetrum nigrum (lower limit). 



700 feet. 

 Comarum palustre. | Lychnis flos-cuculi. 



500 feet. 

 Cratdegus oxyacantha. | Drosera anglica. 



D, rotundifolia. 



Sanicula europsea. 

 Ilex aquifolium. 



250 feet. 



Lastroea cemula. 

 Osmunda regalis. 



In Crampaum woods few plants of interest were observed, the trees 

 have been already mentioned. Along the mountain's western base were 

 noted Bidens cernua, Crepis paludosa, Pinguicula lusitanica, Sypericum 

 androsmmum, Scirpus setaceus, S. savii, Sdbenaria chlorantha, H. 

 hifolia, Plantago maritima (low inland level), Festuca sciuroides, Carex 

 pulicaris, G. sylvatica, and other commoner sedges ; while to the 

 west of the road, in a very wet bog between it and Crampaun river, 

 I observed Utricularia minor, U. intermedia, Drosera intermedia. Allium 

 ursinum (by the river), Schcenus 7iigrieans, Rhynchospora alba, Carex 

 panieulata, C. ovalis, C. limosa, and C. filiformis. These two last rare 

 species I have several times noted together in the wettest spongy 

 bogs in Mayo and Galway. 



A few miles westward of ISTephin, across the valley of the Cram- 

 paun river, lies a cluster of mountains around the head of the Skirdagh 

 river, of which the highest are Birreencorragh, 2295 feet, and Buck- 

 oogh, 1900 feet above Lough Feeagh, which is almost an estuary 

 from Clew Bay. These are uninteresting mountains, devoid of cliffs, 

 and unsuitable for genuine alpine plants, none of which were met 

 with. A series of notes on the upper ranges of lowland species was 

 made, however, and a few interesting mountain plants are recorded. 

 On the south-eastern slopes of Birreencorragh there are cultivated 

 fields to about 400 feet ; the highest I met with in the west. 



BlEKEENCOEEAGH, SoUXH SiDE. 



2000 feet. 

 Silene maritima. I Armeria maritima. 



