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determined), and immediately alongside of it Euphorbia portlandica, 
which Mr. C. Moore has recorded from here. On the sandhills Viola 
Curtisit is plentiful, and for the first time I saw a Aieracium in 
reach of the sea-spray at ordinary high tide. A rocky, pretty little 
point, ‘‘ Suil Point,” stretches out here from a considerable tract 
of dunes. On the way to it 1 found Viola cantina in plenty; it is 
shill 4 is all I know of it in Done ay Ranunculus 
bulbosus, said ee fogs still) to be rare in Donegal, is always 
abundant. The na this point set me thinking. It is a time- 
Lough Swilly is derived from an Irish word signifying shadow, and 
that the a bari ret so spencuelataly and poetically, the Lake 
of the Sha Alas! swil means an eddy or whirlpool, literally, 
‘‘an eye.” Tho river Swilly ; is full of these, and gave its name to 
the lough. From Binion I made m my way back by a very pretty old 
lane to the ‘Cross of Clonmany.”” On the ditch-bank, at a place 
called Tanderagee, a tiny hamlet, Lycopus ——— very oe in 
~~ occurred, as did also Bidens tripartt 
. 5.—Went in for a long day’s work. cpr ing early, I went 
dencieigh Ballyliffin to Pollan Bay. About Clonmany village walls 
Asplenium Ruta-muraria is commoner than usual in North Donegal. 
Close to Ballyliffin, at ena Mentha piperita is well-established. 
Carduus setosus, a vari C. arvensis, is frequent. The most 
attractive object here ni a smingetee cent Yankee work of art, a 
giantess scarecrow, fully dressed, in a tragic attitude and a 
wonderful hat. Pollan Bay is a dreary waste of recently tide- 
invaded sandhills—a waste which oe across to sie nbs ce 
Bay, leaving seaward Doagh Island. coast here is com 
plicated. At the head of this bay lies Maitmtcwis, on an estuary of 
the same name. This forms the eastern boundary of Doagh Island. 
I took some wide casts through these Pollan sandhills, seeing 
nothing except some remarkable Eryngium. These plants were a 
very brilliant petals,—a really beautiful plead, It is odd 
ing fo 
dwarf Silene maritima, with an equally dwarfed Senecio vulgaris, the 
latter having very distinct dark markings on the involucral bracts, 
giving the heads a speckled 5 eee I have seen this form 
before on sea shingle. About a small and ruined castle—Carrick- 
abreaghy, on the north-west nailer of Doagh, Senebiera Coronopus 
occurs. It has only 7 other locality in the county that I know 
of. There are many likely beaches, and here and there a sea- 
weed-man along here. Neither silver, nor blandishments, nor 
untiring search will produce Crambe. Along here there were many 
evidences of the effects of the terrible ‘‘ Christmas storm ” of 1894, 
which ied the highest tide on record in this part of Ireland, 
