72 BOTANICAL EXCURSIONS IN WEST DONEGAL. 
others are on the Foyle coast, in Inishowen. In a ditch from this: 
lake, between it and Lough "Doo 0, grows a huge Carea ampullacea. 
Mr. Bennett refers it “ probab ly”’ to var. re ah of Norman.. 
e type, over which it towers by a foot, was alongside. I 
which had also gremen floating leaves, but it was not as aberrant 
as this. One of these days a flight of about ‘ahh choughs flew 
over me, a very rare bird now in Fanet. In several places vom 
this extreme coast I gathered Erythrea Centaurium var. pseudo 
latifolia, very condensed. Cladium Mariscus was seen at Tullyconnell 
Lake. It occurs in several Fanet lakes, and marks at once the 
gliding into the western flora. It is very rare (a single station) in 
owen. Near the Knockalla end of Ballinas stocker Bay I 
gathered, a = days later, Polygonum Raii, and by one of the lakes 
tain above Vaccinium Vitis-Id@a, in flower and fruit; 
ind $n the thks Isoetes and Sparganium alpinum. At the foot of the 
mountain (Magherawarden) a remarkably narrow-leaved Achillea. 
Ptarmica occurs, and close by, Rubus hemistemon. ; 
n August 8rd I found myself in very uncomfortable quarters in. 
Clonmany, the district at the eastern entrance to Lough Swilly, 
te sil gaa towards Malin along the Atlantic. Hre fond: when 
every variety oO "cliff and strand, and no ms fae there is a great 
future _in front of Ballyliffin and Clonm _~ I have been through 
rrents, were a disappointment. Facing north, and with e 
recuiaits apport as they have in shelter, cliff, and inncoesibiity : 
t have believed they would prove so bare of 
botanically. Not a hawkweed, not an interesting ation : 
different from the ee of the county. Fanet has no rivers, so the 
sake tte does not exist. The Inis howen Hieracia are all on the 
ht, 
along Clonmany Bay, with the usual assemblage o e€ 
plants, Houkeneya, Cakile, Eryngium, and Salsola. There is 
