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O, apifera, and in the water Potamogeton Zizii^ P. nitens^ and 
Myriophylliwi verticillatuvi. Bushes of Yew grew here and 
there with Juniperus nana., and plenty of Euphrasia Satis- 
burgensis grew among the Gentia7ia ver^ia and other charac- 
teristic plants of the limestone pavements. 
Two miles N.N.K. of Moycullen there is an extensive area 
of bare limestone occupying a conspicuous low ridge. Here 
Neoii7iea intada^ Euphrasia Salisbtirgensis^ Ophrys viuscifera^ 
&c., were seen again. Gortachalla Lough is very shallow 
and reed}', but yielded Potamogeton heterophyllus in nice con- 
dition, with Chara polyaca7itha and Nitella opaca. Thence 
our road followed an esker across miles of bog to near Ross 
Lake, where Pivipinella magna and Verbaia offichialis were 
conspicuousl}^ abundant, and Cystopteris fragilis grew by the 
roadside. The last plant of the day was Petasites fragrans^ 
growing close to Oughterard — West Galway being one of the 
three divisions from which this south Italian species had not 
hitherto been recorded. 
Roundstone was our next stopping-place, and a few days 
were devoted to exploring the south-west corner of Conne- 
mara, with interesting results. The occurrence here of 
Aspcrnla cyjianchica and Sesleria ccerulea at Roundstone, 
twenty-iSve miles from the nearest point of the limestone 
country, seemed to point to an outlier of the calcicole flora on 
the Dog's Bay sand-dunes (which, be it remarked, are highly 
calcareous in character). We hoped to add further members 
to this interesting little colony, and were not disappointed. 
On the peninsula beyond Dog's Bay, in a sward dotted with 
Arabis ciliata, Chlora perjoliata^ Orchis pryamidalis, and the 
plants already named (a highly calcicole group), we were 
delighted to get Euphrasia Satis burgefisis, far from its home 
on the limestone pavements. And here a surprise awaited us, 
for it proved to be by no means confined to the limy sands of 
Dog's Bay. We traced it inland to the road, and on up the 
side of Urrisbeg to a height of 300 feet, where the character of 
the ground changes, and wet peat with a bog flora replaces 
light loam and humus with a grassy heath flora. When it 
leaves the coast line here, the plant, though widespread, is 
particular as to the situation in which it grows. It chooses 
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