414 Pn7Corr: J'egefatioii Co?77jU!^fvc i)i /he W. of Irchind. 



member. A mile or two of heavy tramping, which might be 

 described ahnost equally aptly as walking or wading, made us 

 glad to reach the rocky knoll of Craigga Moor, where the cheerful 

 painting of Heather and dwarf Gorse told of drier conditions. 

 Erica Mackaii occurs here in profusion, and \\ as in fine flower ; 

 but a search revealed no trace of the hybrid E. Stuarii, nor of 

 the double-flowered E. Mackaii, which gardeners ha\-e named 

 E. Crauiordii. At Craigga ^loor Lake the wind was high and 

 boisterous, and only one member responded to the conductor's 

 in\-itation to wade waist-deep through the boulders to study 

 the flora of the islets. This has already been described by the 

 writer,* and consists of a dense low growth, mostly waist-high, 

 of Pynis AucKparia, Taxus haccata, Quercits Rohur, Ilex Aqui- 

 folium, Juniper us nana, Myrica Gale, Ulex GaUii, Arctosta- 

 phylos Uva-ursi. Among the shaggy Ling Listeva cordata occurs, 

 and the canopy of bushes shelters a luxuriant growth of Hymeno- 

 phyllum funbridgense. Eriocaulon and Lobelia occupied shel- 

 tered inlets, with stems over three feet in length. 



Thence southward across a wilderness of drenching level 

 bog, intersected by a maze of lakelets, through which a careful 

 way had to be steered, and over a grandly glaciated rocky 

 shoulder to Lough Bollard, where Adiantum Capillus-Veiieris 

 was pointed out gi-owing in a lim}' crevice of the metamorphic 

 rock. Then up the hill into a grove of Erica mediterranea, 

 gro\^•ing mainh' along the course of a small stream. Thence 

 we made the ascent of Urrisbeg (9S7 feet), getting Sagina subu- 

 lata and more Erica mediterranea and E. Mackaii as we went. 

 From the summit a very remarkable panorama is spread out 

 — eastward, a maze of sea and land ; westward, a maze of 

 lakelets and land. ^^'e descended southward, where the 

 steeper slope and consequent better drainage brought in Ulex 

 Gallii in great quantity, now in fuU flower ; and while some 

 returned to Roundstone by road, others had first a swim in 

 the Atlantic at Gorteen Bav. 



On our third morning an early start was made, and we drove 

 to the base of Ben Lettery, the nearest of the Twelve Bens of 

 Connemara. Ascending, we noticed that Molinia heath held 

 swa}' up to about 1000 feet, where it gave way, apparently 

 owing to steeper slope and better drainage, to Calluna moor, 

 which continued up to the summit (1904 feet). Saxifraga 



Irish Xatumlisf, V., 292. 1896. 



Naturalist, 



