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dont remember seeing it in 1910-12-14.  Oxyria frequent & Sedum rosea everywhere.  Perhaps the most surprising plant seen was the alien Epilobium [[strikethrough]] nummularifolium [[/strikethrough]] pedunculare which now form sheets along all the rills as high as we went & all over the coomb.  It was also curious to see Thyme almost everywhere, as this plant does not grow in the Galtees, where we have spent our last three annual holidays.  On way home via the "official" path along N. side of coomb, at ca. 2000 ft. found a Mossy Saxifrage (KB-9) (in a rill) which at a distance looked like a hypnoides form, owing to the long barren shoots - probably due to fact that it gets the sun & was not affected by the recent drought, as most of the mossies in the coomb have been;  yet it was only in bud - what form it belongs to I can't say, but it looked very different to those on other side & at head of coomb.  During the recent drought one of the pools between the tarns had dried up, with the result that when recent rain filled it, its floor of Isoetes being filled with air floated to the surface & looked like dead hedgehogs floating in the pool.


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31st May 1946.

A fine morning, with several showers, after a showery night;  wind strong SW.;  glass falling;  in afternoon rain set in heavily about 4 PM & lasted till 7.30 P.M., by which time wind had dropped.  

Spent morning writing up Saxifrages taken on 30th & sending some off to Desmond Meikle.  After lunch went for walk to Drom - the little hill opposite Cloghane, on E. side of estuary, where remains of woods evidenced by dense scrub of Salix (mostly aurita), Corylus;  one small bush of Betula also seen (the first in district!);  very many species of sedges seen (C. tumidicarpa, Hornschuchia, panicea, glauca, pilulifera, goodenowii (rare), praecox, extensa (on shore), "vulpina" (on shore);  rostrata (in cut away logs by road to Fermoyle).  Some lovely patches of Pinguicula grandiflora in wet patches on W. side of Drom & a few plants of Osmunda near shore, but no other plants of interest seen.

Tried sweeping in lane from farm at bridge over Owenmore to coast & along shore, but very few hymenoptera out.  The following insects swept in lane or on shore:-

Lasius niger ☿ shaken out of overhanging vegetation on shore-bank.
Phygadeuon?  2 small ♂︎♂︎.
Promethes pulchellus  1♀︎
P. cognatus?  1♀︎, polished mesonotum, black coxae