126 BOTANICAL EXCURSIONS IN DONEGAL. 
By the muddy coast by the Poa maritima zone, which the people 
aptly call the ‘selvage, i 
‘with great satisfaction and comfort, to Malin town, where I was 
well cared for at Doherty’s, a branch of the capital hotel in Carndo- 
nagh, a neighbourhood I have often botanized. 
10.— Left Malin early and followed the coast north- 
luffs, where I formerly found Orobanche Hedera, I searched 
carefully in other parts, and noted nothing except plenty of EHupa- 
torium and Trifolium medium, the former often white 
decided affection for the margin of the sea in Donegal, and all 
(on whose north coast I am) Cinanthe Lachenalii is everywhere, 
and Mente specially avoided by cattle, who eat the rushes all 
‘ou : 
bound coast of Malin Head and the foregoing estuary, I gathered 
Vicia hirsuta, Habenaria viridis, Euphorbia portlandica, Viola Curtisii 
and Mackaiana, the Euphorbia being plentiful. I searched in vain 
for F’. Paralias. Hieracium anglicum grows on the sandhills and 
the bluffs above here. Chenopodium maritimum is commoner than 
Salicornia northwards. Here I made a detour upwards to Knock- 
glass in search of Dickie’s old record ‘‘near sea-level at Knock- 
_ ” for Saxifraga umbrosa, but I failed. He says it is ‘‘ rare an 
was also unsuccessful. Along this sandy shore I came upon the 
most wonderful Cakile maritima I have ever seen. It was in great 
beds, a foot high, making a pleasing mauve effect, visible at a con- 
siderable distance. The stout woody root-stem re nearly an 
inch in diameter, and the sprawling branches, woody, whitish, hard 
and hollow, were a yardin length. Here I was exactly opposite the 
Lagacurrey station on Doagh Island for Crambe, and my hopes ran 
high for a few minutes, to no purpose. At the first rocky point 
