74 BOTANICAL EXCURSIONS IN WEST DONEGAL. 
rediscover Mertensia, which is said to have been found here some 
fifty years ago. But it has disappeared. There are fine clumps of 
Ligusticum scoticum along here, but nothing else of interest. 
Radiola millegrana is common on Dunaff Head ; it certainly affects 
remains of sod-dykes; and it also puts in an early appearance on 
burnt heather. From Leenane I made my way home in the dusk, 
gathering drctium minus by the roadside near Clonmany chapel. 
A. intermedium is the commonest Donegal form. A. major seems 
to be absent 
Aug.. 1_-¥ esterday I was informed that on a rocky islet, 
Ciethiect Island, I would find the ‘‘ Strand-cabbage.” As —_ islet 
is nha ge at low water, I felt bound to return and search it, 
Ww with > assistants, and only felt that I an ga 
half a day. cei , had I not gone, I should have for ever 
reproached myself. There was a wreck here some twenty years 
ago, and all the rats took up their abode on this island, which 
possesses about a rood of soil, the rest being naked rock with Aster 
and Anthemis in abun dance. This soil was riddled with their holes. 
After several years’ residence the pais left in a body. Perhaps 
they had finished the Craumbe. Two odd modern ‘qeolaninal — 
mena are observable here. In one case there is a raised beac 
to twenty feet above the tide which is turning to green sward with 
grass and a sat weeds over irre shingle. This growth and ¢ 
the tide in a heavy g: The shingle igcthas a again sone and 
nae a of dead mere serub attest the result. 
Fro is time-wasting island I wended m y eastward, 
along aicaink any strand. Ata group of gore aaa as Tullagh, 
I found considerable quantities of three interesting plants amongst 
waste gronnd: Curdwus crispus, Ballota nigra, and Allium Babingtonii, 
all under suspicious circumstances, to say the least of it. Even as 
an established waste- sane Hcg Ballote j is very rare in Donegal. 
Of the thistle more by and by. The Allium, or ‘‘ potato- -garlic” as 
they call it, is often seen er canaien but never (as is Aran) 
, which form the > et margin of a bold face Ww 
Fiction (818 ft.). On the first bluff I gathered a Fiaried ‘si 
