el 
‘Ssparya We were far too 
“name some few years back by the Bot. Exch. Club, but differs con- 
20 NOTES OF A BOTANICAL TOUR IN WEST IRELAND. 
siderably from specimens of the same received from the Continent. 
Teucrium Scordium was also plentiful all along the south-western 
shore of the lough. In the lough itself grew Potamogeton mucro- 
natus Schrad., Chara contraria Kuetz, C. hispida, C. polyacantha 
A ‘a Wi oodf c 
growing very finel 
River, which runs into Lake Dearg, on the south side of Rossmore. 
By this stream also we observed Hieracium umbellatum L., a culti- 
vated land Mentha paludosa Sole, M. arvensis L. form, and in a pond 
at Rossmore Potamogeton obtusifolius M. and K. Inula salicina L. 
as in good flower but very scarce; one plant was found on 
und. . 
From Portumna we came into Connemara. At Oreghtarard we — 
picked up on the shore of L. Corrib fragments of a peculiar close-set 
form of Chara aspera Willd., which Mr. A. Bennett considers may 
be with one named C. aspera f. marina condensata. Here also 
occurred Scirpus uniylumis Link. Near Recess we saw Sali« 
Smithiana, and i e stream Potamogeton polygonifolius Pour., 
var. p. fluitans, was plentiful, but only i ng 
found a curious broad-leaved form of Ranunculus pseudo-reptans. 
Roundstone proved a very interesting locality. On our way there 
urselves acquainted with the well-known species of the district, as 
Erica Mackaiana Bab., E. hibernica Syme, Erythraa Centaurium 
Pers. var. pseudolatifolia, plen 
Curtisii Forster, Radiola Nillegrana Sm. We searched on Urrisbeg 
and about its base for the variety acutwm of Asplenium Adiantum- 
nigrum, but cannot be sure of having obtained the true form, which 
loc na b., Senecio 
Leaving Roundstone we stopped a night at Maam. Below the 
hotel, in the river, just above the bridge, is a bed of Potamogeton 
niifolius Leest. early to gather it in fruit, 
