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31st May 1945.  

Mainly wet to very wet, with short bright intervals in afternoon when a depression had passed, wind gone more West & temperature dropped considerably.  In afternoon walked up past "the lane in the woods", where Mr. & Mrs. Sheppard have been living, but today left for Clonmel, & explored surroundings & found a swimming pond & various lily ponds, which like the rest of "the garden" are nearly overgrown by the water plants.

Did not collect anything.


1st June 1945.

After a fine night & morning another depression appeared at 11 AM. & heavy raining sleat & hail at intervals from that time till 4 P.M.

Left hotel at 10.15 & walked via the "red lane" up Glancushnabinnia to highest farm, then across ridge to outlet of L. Borheen, up cliffs E. of same & on to L. Muskry, where had lunch. 

After lunch spent an hour at base of cliffs & saw


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1.6.1945, cont.  L. Muskry, ST., cont. 

the usual plants, while it rained, sleated & hailed alternately, so that we had to give in & make for home via. outlet of L. Muskry, Rossadrehid, Aherlow school & Newtown.

Plants seen on slope & at base of cliffs just W. of N.W. corner of lake, include Betula pubescens, Sax. cf. hirta-sternbergia;  Sax. hirtia-genuina (cf. Hart.);  S. hypnoides in stream on slope with Carex paniculata;  Sax. stellaris, the same single plant of Scolopendrium vulgaris seen in June 1944;  Thalictrum minus, Lychnis dioica, Oxyria digyna, Rubus saxatilis, Epilobium angustifolium, &c. &c.  Desmond Meikle found a nice clump of the large Polygala which resembles the so-called var. Ballii (formerly var. grandiflora!);  also a small plant which resembles Peplis portula, but which we cannot be sure of & so will try to grow.

Lychnis flos-cuculi found here also on 6.6.45.