20 PLANTS OF (NORTH) ARAN ISLAND, CO. DONEGAL. 
ground which was still under crops. It is therefore possible that 
some weeds of cultivation which do not appear in my list may 
occur in Aran. 
about eight miles north-east from the locality on Aran. 
The Flora of Aran belongs almost entirely to Watson’s British 
Scottish type: Sawifraga hirta, Antennaria dioica, Lobelia Dortmanna, 
Empetrum nigrum, Lamiwn intermedium (a colonist), and Hlymus 
arenarius. 
few birches may be met with. These two latter are native; all the 
ed 
e following plants are especially abundant and characteristic 
of the vegetation in Aran :—Sedwm Lthodiola, Arctostaphylos Uva- 
ursi, Empetrum nigrum, and Ji uniperus nana. Arctostaphylos appears 
chiefly inland about the tops, and on bluffs above one or two of 
the lakes; Sedum Rhodiola grows in extraordinary profusion at the 
south-western extremity, and with the others in many parts along 
the western cliffs. I have never seen any one of these four plants 
so abundant in any other part of Ireland. 
y comparing this list with Mr. More’s account of the Flora of 
Tnish Bofin,* I find that the total for Aran is 282 species, and for 
nage Report on the Flora of Inish Bofin, Galway,” by A. G. More, F.L.S., 
er in the Royal Irish Academy Proceedings, 2nd Series, vol, ii. (Science), 
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