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30th May 1945. 

A fairly fine day, with cool & strong W. breeze & showers, but no bad showers in the mountains.

Left hotel at 11.15 & rode across valley;  then walked up Glancushnabinnia & across ridge into L. Borheen corrie, where had lunch on bluffs west of lake at about 2,200 ft, where once more saw large patches of Vacc. Vitis-Idaea.

After lunch walked across cliffs to where track runs over main ridge of the Galtees, seeing the usual plants - Sax. cf. hirta, s. cf. platypetala Hart, Sax. umbrosa & S. stellaris;  Salix herbacea, Vacc. Vitis-Idaea, Rubus saxatilis (the single plant on cliff just above the track N. of the gap.  The most curious find on these cliffs was made by Daisy (M.D.S.) when she discovered three spikes of Botychium lunaria on a shelf a hundred or more feet above the track, a little north of where cliff & track meet.  Later we separated & I worked along the uppermost cliff due south of L. Borheen but found little of interest, except one or two patches of Sax. platypetala just west of one of the largest gullies.

Daisy worked upper cliffs just east of the gap


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30.5.45, cont.  L. Borheen, &c., cont.

& later the west end of the middle range of cliffs south of the lake & from the west end of the latter reported many plants of a Hieracium on one bit of cliff.

Desmond Meikle worked down from the gap to the lake via small scarps above west end of lake where much Sax. cf. hirta & S. cf. platypetala & some S. ambrosa in semi-dry gully S.W. of lake.

After meeting on lake shore near outlet where some Empetrium seen we went down 1/4 mile to site of tarn, had afternoon tea, & then listed plants in marsh on site of tarn where Ranunculus Lenormandi was looking much happier, in 3 inches of gently flowing water at outlet, than it did last year.   Also again saw all the plants listed in 1944 & Meikle discovered a small patch of Carex paniculata & I one single stem of Equisetum limosum.

On way home across Glancushnabinnia saw much Viola palustris, one small patch of Hydrocotyle vulgaris (at ca. 900 ft.);  a few stems of Equisetum limosum;  Pedicularis palustris;  one patch of Carex paniculata (Meikle) & other plants seen in 1944, but not Equisetum sylvaticus & not Hart's Pinguicula lusitanica.