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10.6.46, cont.  Sauce Creek & Teer, Co. SK., cont.

Peplis portula & Potentilla palustris grew with many common plants.  Some of the Cerastium seen along cliffs seemed to have very large flowers.

In some places above cliffs there was a curious plant association:-  Bracken (dominant), with Sedum anglicum, Bluebells (Scilla nonscripta), Cerastium (cf. triviale), Rumex Acetosella, Galium saxatile, & a small grass (Aira praecox?)

The association of Sedum & Bluebells seemed very strange, but explained by the overlapping of two associations at this spot.  One of the most characteristic plants of the cliff edges was Lustrea aemula.  Three species of ants were seen at about 1000 ft. near Sauce Creek namely, Formica fusca, Lasius flavus, & Myrmica scabinodis - no doubt M. ruginodis also present as many red ants seen but only one examined.  One Tiger Beetle seen, several Carabus taken & a couple of Geotrupes (small sp.) seen.  Carabus granulatus 1 bronze form & 3 coal black specimens.  No hymenoptera other than the ants seen during the day.


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11th June 1946.

A wild, cold, day, with frequent heavy showers of rain, sleet & hail, after heavy showers in early morning:  every place under water & the hills soaking & rocks slippery.

Got lift in car at 10.30 AM. (taking Major Ruttledge to Dingle) to Connor Pass & walked to Coumanare Lakes, investigating on way peat deposit on ridge S. of L. Doon & W. of Coumanare, for Tempest of Dundalk, where large numbers of pointed pine sticks have been found lying on surface between the peat bogs prior to 1938:  did not see any lying about but Daisy saw broken end of one sticking out of a 3 ft. peat bog & about 8" from base, which on being excavated proved to have been, sure enough, cut at end, which was about 13 inches inside the peat-bog.  Took sample of peat for G.F. Mitchell in order to determine if possible the age of these pointed sticks, locally known as "arrows", which they certainly are not.

Had lunch in lee of peat bog at 1 P.M. & then walked down to uppermost of the three Coumanare Lakes & examined some small cliffs above it, but Sax. stellaris, Sedum rosea & Isoetes the only plants seen of interest here.  Saw a fresh Bombus agrorum