338 A BOTANICAL RAMBLE ALONG THE SLANEY. 
with lanceolate bracteoles. Bonamia is an erect Convolvulaceous 
re) sm. 
couple of inches in diameter. Mascarenhaisia is allied to Echites, 
but 1 is not scandent. The flower is rather like that of Tachiadenus, 
and a baccate fruit the size of a greengage lum. Dicoryphe has 
ifonaraces stamens, sg a 8-celle spticae sone ovary. 
(To be continued.) 
A BOTANICAL RAMBLE ALONG THE SLANEY AND 
UP THE EAST COAST OF WEXFORD. 
By Henry Cuicuester Hart, B.A. 
June and July last I spent several days in a botanical 
exploration of the River Slaney, starting at its source and turning 
northwards from its mouth, up the — of Wexford, to Arklow. 
I met with a good num mber of unnoticed varieties, and noted 
earetally the distribution in the district of some of the rarest Irish 
plants, as Mathiola sinuata, Juncus acutus, &c. I will give an 
account of my secon oe in the order in which they were made. 
th of e, having crossed the eastern shoulder . 
Lugna oe aor igsaahaiel few hundred feet, I struck 
southern rivulet, which at a Loans elevation is called cet Lil 
Slaney; it is an uninteresting and tortuous stream, ing 
amongst stony banks for the first few miles. About half-way ay doe 
this southern slope of Lugnaquilia, above Coolmoney, I found upon 
rocks in the river-bed a small patch of Hieracium anglicum, & 
hawkweed which has not been gathered previously in the Wicklow 
istrict. At the base of the steeper part of the descent many 
common sedges appear abundantly, and it is serene how these 
prevail along the river-banks in the poorer, upland soil. the 
lowlands, from Baltinglass southwards, the change to the larger 
river-plants and grasses is well-marked. The sedges noted were, 
