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Riding to Macroom, he walked thence 13 miles to Millstreet, carrying 

 a heavy burden. Next day he had a still more fatiguing walk to 

 Killarney — 21 miles. He was able on the 3Uth to begin botanising, 

 and he records in his journal of that date, observing, on the Kenmare 

 road, Arbutus unedo. He gathered Rhyncospora fiisca, Pingidcula 

 lusitanica, and Hymenophyllum Timbridgense. Reaching Turk Cascade, 

 he found barren specimens of the rare Tricliomanes radicans ; and on 

 the 31st he gathered this fern in a fertile condition. His time appears 

 to have been occupied for some days in gathering and drying flowering 

 plants, the monotony of the occupation being relieved by a visit from 

 Dr. Dickson, a zealous botanical student," who came with a letter of 

 introduction to him from Prof. Hooker. 



About this time, Mr. Wilson wrote an account of his doings to 

 Prof. Hooker, who replied as follows : — " On my return last evening 

 from a visit to my friend Mr. Lyell, at Kinnordy * * I had the 

 great pleasure to find your letter from Killarney. To use a Scotch 

 expression, I was wearying to hear from you ; but I am concerned at 

 your not having been more successful. I fear that the whole of Great 

 Britain is too uniform in its vegetable productions for any one portion 

 to yield you, advanced as you are in the botany of this country, any 

 very abundant harvest. You are perhaps too late for phaenogamous 

 plants, and the rains have certainly been against you ; but I am still 

 of opinion that the south of Ireland will afford a more abundant 

 harvest than any other part of the British Islands for cryptogamia. 

 Indeed you seem to have already gathered many of these — such perhaps 

 as are already known. But that cannot be a bad country which has 

 given you a new Hypnum and a new Bymenopliyllum. I quite long to 

 see these two novelties. If you like to draw up a few notes respecting 

 them, I will send them in your name to English Botany, where 

 they will be a thousand times more interesting than the bad species of 

 willows and roses there represented. Hooheria loete-virens (not yet 

 figured in English Botany^ Trichomanes brevisetum (T. radicans) 

 Eriocaulon, the Pinguiculce, not a few Jimgermannice rariores, &c., &c , 

 must not stand for nothing." 



On the 6th of August Mr. Wilson transferred his quarters to the 

 house of a Mr. Casey, at Kenmare. Next day he walked to Drum- 

 ouchty lake, south of the town, and had some excellent botanising. 

 He found, amongst other things, Pinguicula grandijiora, and was en- 

 gaged until three in the afternoon gathering Eriocaulon. Returning 

 homeward he observed Sium verticillatum and a variety of Mentha 

 hirsuta. 



