128 BOTANICAL EXCURSIONS IN DONEGAL. 
sedges, rushes, or plantains, was often Anagallis tenella and Radiola 
Millegrana, the latter being at a maximum here, as about the old 
signal-tower. Compressed Erythrea (pseudo-latifolia) abounds too, 
and Gentiana campestris. Carex extensa occurs right round the Head. 
I was interested to see corn-buntings, several pairs, at this in- 
clement limit of Ireland. Here I found an hospitable dame with 
whom I had once lodged, and after most welcome tea I trudged 
back to Malin town in heavy rain, and a dark night and a bad 
road over some ten Irish miles. A heavy day’s work. 
Aug. 11.—Back to Malin Head by car. Taking up the coast 
again near the signal-tower, I followed it southwards and east- 
wards. On the way from the car I observed a good deal of Carduus 
crispus at a place called Lag, which I had passed close to yesterday. 
ansy occurred several times along this road. It is one of the 
most noticeable of thoroughly-established introduced plants. Her 
Majesty’s mail to Malin is the most leisurely conveyance I have 
ever sa on. From start to finish it is more or less a revel of 
guard station is a magnificent growth of Mertensia. This I ob- 
served in 1882, and recorded in my paper on Inishowen (Journ. 
Bot. 1883). Iam happy to say it is at least as extensive as it was 
plant, is here and there commoner than elsewhere so far east in 
Donegal. An island rock below me, with a boiling surge breaking 
on it, annoyed me greatly. It could only be reached by boat, but 
to some extent, peregrines appeared to have a second brood, 
and the female’s cry, last off the nest and the bigger bird, has 
shriller scream hat a row they kicked up! Further south- 
time. Along the very summit-margin of these cliffs I found Saaifraga 
oppositifolia in good quantity in several places, a new record for @ 
