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23.9.43, Aft.  Aherlow, ST., cont.

Taken at 2, cont.
Proctos. 29  None mounted
Chalcids  4  None mounted
Cynipids  2  None mounted

24th Sept. 1943. 

After a fine evening & night awoke to find the valley filled with wet mist & road damp & it soon became evident we were in a jam with conflicting NW & NE winds, which resulted in intermittent drip & rain till about midday when NW wind won.  After then a fine afternoon & evening with strong NW wind.  Set insects in morning but after dinner took bikes & rode across valley & then SW to within 5 miles of Mitchellstown;  turned back close to Co. Cork boundary (with LK) & came home via Galbally after covering about 20 miles.  Did not collect!


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25th Sept. 1943.  

A fine morning, but dull & windy, with showers (mostly over the plain!) in afternoon.  Walked from hotel, via Clady Bridge & Glencushnabinnia bohereen, past Lough Borheen outlet, up cliffs E. of same & across spur to Lough Muskry, where had lunch in shelter of moraine overlooking lake (i.e. looking south!).  After lunch went down to lake but failed to get any Pisidia as muddy patches in too deep water.  Swept large patch of Carex paniculata, but, no doubt owing to strong cold wind, took no hymenoptera.  A very interesting flora occurs here with the Carex, including Galium uliginosum & a narrow-leaved Saxifrage of the S. hypnoides group (probably the gemmifera (or "eu-hypnoides") in late autumn form, when the [[strikethrough]] "barren" [[/strikethrough]] buds in axils of leaves on the barren shoots have each become rosettes!!!).  A specimen (root), in flower, brought home from here to grow.  Daisy in meantime had gone up to N. end of cliffs just above & W of lake & found Webb's station for Epilobium angustifolium & with it several clumps of Rubus saxatilis & much Thalictrum minus.  Working along southwards at foot of these the lowest cliffs, we eventually reached the bottom of