Sl4 Wild Oonnemara. By Dr Charles Stuart. 



fair shooting, while numerous lakes are full of white trout, and 

 both are available for visitors. No more desirable spot exists 

 for any one requiring quietness, rest, and good air. Interesting 

 walks can be bad in every direction, the natives being very quiet 

 and civil, but very poor. Their faces show traces of the hard- 

 ships they undergo. 



A wild waste like the country here, has no special industry, so 

 that the natives live a comparatively idle life. The season of 

 1890 had been cold and very damp, consequently the potato 

 patches were all blackened with disease. What these poor 

 people are suffering at the present time, may be imagined. 

 Were it not that sons and daughters in America send remittances 

 home to the old people they must starve. The peats could not 

 be dried owing to the wet weather in May, June, and July, so 

 that a want of fuel was also staring them in the face and 

 causing them much anxiety. 



On the 10th August we rested. On the 11th with several of 

 our party I ascended Cashel mountain which is steep near the 

 summit, while another party went out in the yacht fishing. The 

 weather was bright, warm, and very sunny. Botanically our 

 hill was unproductive ; Hymenophyllum Wilsoni, Saxifraga um- 

 brosa, and a few other common plants being all that we got. 



The views of the Atlantic with the bold rocky coast line, the 

 Isles of Arran, etc., and Clifden and Roundstone could be clearly 

 seen. From the purity of the air no more extensive prospect 

 could be obtained than from the summit of Cashel mountain. 

 After descending the hill, our friends from the sea joined us at 

 lunch, and afterwards four of us set out on a car for Roundhill> 

 the station for ^rica Mackayana, about six miles from the hotel. 

 We had hardly left the road when abundance of the plant was 

 gathered. In examining the ground I came on either a new 

 species or a hybrid of a striking character, which is of a much 

 slenderer habit than either Machayana or tetralix. It approaches 

 tetralix in the slight downiness of the sepals and leaves, but 

 seems to differ from both in the tubular corolla, hardly inflated 

 as in tetralix and Mackayana. Another striking form was also 

 gathered by Dr Craig, but I have no description as yet as to its 

 properties. As may be imagined we returned to Cashel Bay in 

 good spirits with our novelties, which were well examined by our 

 critical friends, who all pronounced them as well worth further 

 investigation. 



