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7th July 1946. 

The hottest & finest summer day of the year, so far, with gentle but fresh SW-W. breeze, very hot sun, with a few clouds in afternoon.
 
Drove via Valleymount & Ballynockan to Ballystockan Brook (round near reservoir in King's River Valley), Co. WI., & then walked to summit of Mullaghcleevaun, 4 miles & rise of 2,000 ft. (road being at 700 ft. & summit 2,785 ft.):  flies pestered us all the way with following wind & were very bad on summit & especially by Cleavaun L. 

All insects very abundant & many bees seen on roadside bank where car left & many small insects swept - 1 in field E. of road where car left;  2 at foot of cliffs at E. end of Cleavaun Lough, 2300-2400 ft., & 3 below road (W. of road) where car left (after tea, ca. 6:30 P.M.)

On ascent saw one patch of Vaccinium Oxycoccus on wet bog at about 1800 ft. & much on flat bog due W. of Mullaghcleevaun on return journey at about same height.  Saw one 


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plant of Vaccinium Vitis-Idaea on flat wet moor just W. of cone of Mullaghcleevaun during ascent.  The whole of the moors & bogs covered with Empetrum nigrum above 1500 ft. & almost to summit, which is drier, more rocky & grassy than the moor below & with much Lycopodium selago but no other plant of interest seen. 

On return saw one plant of Andromeda polyfolia with the Cranberry & no doubt plenty more grows there if looked for.  The chief object of my visit was to rediscover the queer form of sedge (Carex goodenowii v. juncella?) which I took E. of Mullaghcleevaun on .... & grow, in the garden ever since:  this has long narrow stiff leaves & stiff flower spikes with pale glumes:  I found a sedge like it - a large patch in slight hollow on first green flat E. of summit of Mullaghcleevaun at about 2,500 ft.  A more ordinary looking jucella, with blackish glumes grows below cliffs at & near & above E. end of Cleavaun Lough, alt. ca. 2300 or 2400 ft. with C. stellulata.  Carex rigida is extraordinarily  

[[margin]] - grown in garden! Cf. specimen dried 16.6.1952. A.W.S [[/margin]]