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leaves just as in hypnoides, & some triped leaves:  flower stems long & slender (4 to 5 inches) almost hairless, & even the flowers had a look of hypnoides about them.  Other plants seen in this valley & on cliffs were.  Carex laevigata (commonly on clif-slopes S. of Owenafeana at about 1200-1300 ft. & just coming into flower);  Pinguicula grandiflora (in profusion & very fine show);  Sedum rosea (the commonest "alpine" on the cliffs & also by river).  Thymus sp. (everywhere);  Sax. umbrosa & some hybrid-looking forms, but no or very little true Geum seen;  Sax. stellaris (not seen until we got well over 1500 ft. & then frequent);  Sibthorpia europea (1200 ft & 2000 ft. on rocks by stream;  see notes on p.9 above);  Hieracium sp. (= anglicum of Hart?) (one colony at about 1700 ft. above where wrecked planes were seen);  Solidago Virgaurea (one fine clump only, near last);  Hymenophyllum sp. probably unilaterale (= peltatum) (frequent above 1500 ft.);


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Lough Duff is a very pretty tarn, shallow & full of water plants Myriophyllum, Isoetes lacustris;  Potamogeton (quite a dense mass of this at NE corner!) & in shallower parts (no doubt sometimes dry) mosses & a creeping bright green strap-like hepatic, on this day in about a foot of water, while on mud where a trickle entered at NE corner was an almost microscopical Callitriche.  Investigation with scoop at S & SW edges produced many Pisidium hibernicum (all spotlessly clean) & P. conventus Clessin, an abundance of Gammarus, while the rocks were dotted all over with the white, eroded, shells of Ancylus fluviatilis.  According to 1" Ord. Map. this tarn is above 2250 ft. contour, which if correct places it at about height of the highest tarn under Brandon in Coumaknock.  After half an hour investigating the tarn we climbed up slope to N. & onto ridge leading west [[strikethrough]] between the [[?]] at "Coomb" &, [[/strikethrough]] then S. along crest to where the pilgrims' path drops down into Coumaknock & so home as on 30th May.

On way up slope from L. Duff collected at about 2400 ft. Carex pulicaris, C. tumidicarpa, C. pilulifera & C. echinata;  also saw