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6th June 1945. 

Almost a very fine day (between depressions, but one slight shower of sleat at L. Muskry about 3 p.m.

Left hotel on bikes about 12 noon & rode to Rossadrehid, 5 miles toward Caher, & then walked up through cut down plantation & outlet stream to L. Muskry, where had lunch at about 2:30 on top of moraine near NE. corner of lake, where examined shore - less rocky & more gravelly than most of the shore of this lake! - here found one seedling of Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara), Cnicus arvensis, one patch of Adder's Tongue fern, one seedling Senecio jacobaea & some other plants listed by Meikle, but saw no sign of Hart's little form of Polygonum Hydropiper.

After lunch worked round lake & along slopes & cliffs W of same to foot of the big gully at SW corner & up cliffs to foot of middle range of cliffs;  here spent a long time searching these for their full length & then had afternoon tea at entrance N. end;  saw all the old plants in abundance, but nothing new;  except one plant of Rubus saxatilis high up on first gully N. of big gully.  After tea spent half an hour at base of lower cliff W. of lake & carefully worked those at N. end of same.


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6.6.45, cont.  L. Muskry, Co. ST., cont.

Left Muskry about 7.30 PM. & home about 9 P.M. after a very good days work.
Took sample of water in waxed bottle for Dr. D.A. Webb, T.C.D.

Spent a large part of the time studying the many Sasifraye on & below cliffs & saw very distinct forms of "true hypnoides" & Hart's "platypetala" & various forms of the hirta group.  Of the hirta group the large almost glabrous blunt leaved form occurred in several places besides the deep wet gully on middle cliffs, sometimes in shade, sometimes in open, but always, I think in very wet places, though other forms seemed to occur in just as wet places;  the "ordinary" somewhat sternbergii-like form also seen frequently;  a third, green, spiky-leaved form found in various places;  some of all these forms dried & also brought home to grow - 13 specimen in all. 
Beside the Saxifragas brought home plants of Polygala cf. grandiflora (& P. serpyllacea for comparison from moor below lough!) - Both died 1946.  What appears to be Lychnis Flos-cuculi - Yes! flowered 1946. (two plants on lower cliffs - not otherwise seen on mountains;  several plants