Wild Connemara. By Dr Charles Stuart. 215 



The 12th of August last was a lovely day in Connemara, 

 although in Scotland it was a very deluge of rain. In four cars 

 from the hotel we started at 9 a.m. for Galway with many 

 regrets. Mr O'Loughlan was at the door with a bottle of cham- 

 pagne to drink to our healths and a safe journey, and behind 

 four rattling good Irish cobs we reached our destination at 7 

 p.m. The distance covered was over fifty Irish miles with the 

 same horses all the way. We were safely put up at the Eailway 

 Hotel in Eyre Square, a palatial residence with more show than 

 comfort within its walls. However, we were glad that we were 

 sheltered after such a long journey. 



On the 13th August Professor D'Arcy Thompson of Dundee, 

 who was on a visit to Galway, joined our party and acted as 

 conductor for the day. We visited after breakfast the Corrib, 

 which rushes through the town in a pellucid stream of great 

 volume, and spanned by a bridge near the weir. Above the 

 bridge on the gravel beds, hundreds of salmon were resting on 

 their way to Loch Corrib. A more interesting sight can hardl}' 

 be imagined ; and all visitors to Calway go to obtain a view of 

 the Salmon. When a gleam of sun comes out, the fish are seen 

 with their heads up the stream resting on the gravel beds, right 

 across the river. Passing along a road to the west by the sea- 

 shore, we visited the station for Gentiana verna, which grew in 

 the turf in great plenty. At this season it was out of flower, 

 still an occasional specimen was gathered, with the fine blue 

 corolla. About the same place grew Gentiana amarella, and G. 

 campestris, Dryas octopetala, Statice Bahusiana. Juncus maritimus, 

 Orchis pt/ramidalis, Agrimonia Eupntoria, Gymnadenia conopsea, 

 Scirpus maritimus, Samolus Valerandi, Erythrma litoralis, Chlora 

 perfoliata, Hahenaria bifolia, Spergularia rubra, SaJicornia herhatea, 

 JJelosciadium nodiftoruni. Carlina vulgaris, Cerastium arvense, Sagina 

 noAiflora, Convolvulus arvensis, Convolvulus sepium. 



In the afternoon we drove to Menlo Marble Quarries, and by 

 the shore gathered Lepigonium marinum, Aster tripolium, Aquilegia 

 vulgaris, Grammitis Ceteraeh, Asplenium trichomanes, Asp. Adiantum 

 nigrum, Aspidium lonchitis, Asperula cynanchica, Glaux maritima, 

 Spergularia nodosa, Sanicula Europcea, Bryonia dioica, Euphorbia 

 exigua, Frankenia IcBvis, Saxifraga tridactylitis, Cornus sanguinea, 

 Sparganium simplex, Geranium lacidum, Typha latifolia, Alisma 

 ranunculoides, Reseda luteola, Arum maculaium, Helosciadium 

 inundatum, Senebiera didyma, Inula salicma, Lepidivm ruderale, etc. 



