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peninsula beyond Carrigaholt towards Loop Head, the country is 

 uninteresting to the botanist, consisting of moory hills and bogs. 

 The cliffs and hills of the coast, chiefly quartzite, amphelite, and 

 clay slate, are very unproductive ; but the numerous little bays offer 

 fine scope for the algologist, particularly that of Ross, lying three 

 miles to the north-east of Loop Head. Its sheltered and extensive 

 reefs and extreme westerly situation no doubt would afford many 

 new and interesting species. In Reinvellagh Bay were found fine 

 plants of the rare Gigartina acicularis, and the Dictyota dichotoma 

 /3. intricata. At Rehy Hill the Scirpus Savii and Rubia pere- 

 grina were abundant ; and in the bogs the delicate and pretty Ra- 

 dio/a millegrana appearing in great quantity in those newly cut. In 

 Scattery Island, opposite to Kilrush, the Pimpinella magna, the Ra- 

 diola was also noticed ; and in Hog Island, Ruppia maritima. Thus 

 time permitted but a superficial view of a small portion of Clare ; 

 and I am satisfied that the limestone barony of Burrin, and those 

 hills and numerous lakes eastward of Miltown Malbay, may still 

 give accessions to our flora. Crossing the Shannon to Tarbert oppor- 

 tunity permitted but a hasty examination of the Salt Marsh, beyond 

 the Revenue Station, where we obtained in abundance that beauti- 

 ful and singular alga, Rhodomela scorpioides, only before collected 

 by Mr. Moore, and but sparingly, in the north. In our drive from 

 Tralee to Dingle, bordering the roadside for a mile beyond Blen- 

 nerville, we noticed Verbena officinalis, and east of Dingle, a station 

 already recorded, the Bartsia viscosa. From Dingle our walk was 

 directed up the old mountain road to the summit of Connor Hill, 

 remarking as we passed the beautiful little Sibthorpia curopcea, and 

 occasionally plants of Pinguicula grandijlora. From the point where 

 this road terminates, or forms its junction with the new line, words 

 cannot describe the awful grandeur and wildness of mountain scene- 

 ry that burst upon our gaze. On one side Giant Brandon with 

 its towering companions enveloped in rolling masses of dense clouds. 

 On the other Connor Hill, and the range leading around the Lake 

 of the Pedlar's Well to lofty Ben-uisgeach — following the course of 

 the winding stream that appeared like a line in the deep valley be- 

 neath, we look seaward to the Magherees, view the headlands of the 

 broad-rolling Shannon, Kerry, and Caun-lean, and even catch a 

 glimpse of the Hag's-head, the southern termination of the cliffs of 

 Moghur on the coast of Clare. In our rear lay Dingle's beautiful 

 bay, skirted by a long line of Iveragh's mountains, which, mass 

 upon mass, and ridge upon ridge, appeared like huge billows of the. 

 ocean — Valencia Island stretching to the southern entrance, the dark 

 and gloomy great Blasquet guarding the northern. 



I've wander'd long, and wander'd far, 



And never have I met, 

 In all this fairy Western land, 



A scene so wildly savage yet. 



On Connor Cliffs were obtained the plants before discovered, with 

 the accessions of Jungermannia Woodsii and ciliaris. The awful fogs 

 and rain storms of Brandon did not intimidate my friend Moore from 



