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12.5.46, cont.  Lugnacullia, Co. WI. cont.

at about 2,200 ft. & visited Palmer's station for Cryptogramma crispa (Parsley Fern) & found three flourishing clumps on the big rock N.E. of the tarn & ca. fifty feet above this there are now two clumps in crack on SE face of this rock, one (the right-hand one) a foot long in narrower part of crack & the other six inches at S end of wider part of crack; & just round corner on SW side of rock is a smaller patch which I do not remember seeing before [& neither does Palmer remember it! AWS. 13.5.46.]

Next crossed to S. side of Prism & saw the Beech Fern, just sprouting, & went up gully S. of this to top of cliffs & the summit plateau, seeing only a few bits of Vaccinium Vitis-Idaea & much Sax. stellaris & some Carex rigida. After visiting the cairn on summit returned to car & had tea.

Trouble with a broken suction pipe to Autovac near Davidstown delayed return, but having mended this with piece of rubber tube off one of my "suckers",

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eventually left Glen of Imaal at 9 PM. & home at 10.20.

Collected a few bits of plants (alpinas & mosses) for Meikle & one beetle for O'Mahony, but did not collect any insects for myself. Saw one Bombus lucorum at lunch place &  heard several more at orabove 2,000 ft., where the Vaccinium myrtillus was not yet early in flower.

Carex rigida in flower at S. side of summit & C. goodenowii, C. panicea, C. pilulifera & C. binervis seen in flower on lower slope. Carex laevigata seen in gorge of Little Slaney at about 1,000 ft.

During day heard our first Cuckoo & Cornerake of the season & on the higher ground (over 2,000 ft.) saw only a raven, 2 wrens (singing), several Wheatears & meadow pipits.

NB. The seedling Euphorbia hiberna half-under hedge in front garden & now at least ten years old flowered for first time during this month. Flowering probably delayed by very dry situation!

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