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29th June 1949.  A very hot day, after a cloudy morning, wind E. & fresh till 6 P.M. then dropped except on coast. Left hotel at 10.20 (I, Daisy & George!) & took lane through chalk quarry to S. end of Big Trosk, crossed outlet of Loughatrosk about ¼ mile below lough & passed between Little & Big Trosk to small lough N. of Lough Fad; passed N. shore of the small lough across outlet & noted Myriophyllum Chara, Littorella & Equisetum limosum, but before coming to the lough passed a nice marsh N. of Little Trosk containing much Carex pauciflora (a new station!); next came on Lough Island & noted Myriophyllum, Littorella, Phragmites, Carex ampullacea, Equisetum limosum, & Carex filiformis, Potamogeton & Triglochin; had lunch on shore of Loughascraban (W. of last) at 1 P.M. & noted [Ph[[?]] Carex ampullacea & C. limosa, & [[?]]; on dry shore Ed. palastris, Carex divisa & ?Sc. pauciflora. After lunch walked W. & crossed Inver River just below its first fork & looked for Sax. Hirculus where found by late S. Wear & myself on 6.7.1914 & again seen by R.D. Praeger & self on 10.7.1920, but found the place much changed & could not locate or 

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recognize the exact spot, but searched several somewhat likely spots full of Hypnum revulsens? for an hour but failed to find S. Hirculus, though all its associates preset. At this stage, 3 P.M. Daisy & George made for Carnlough, via Pollan burn, while I went S. over great boggy area & down tributary of Inver River flowing S. a little W. of Crochravar, past marshy area on 1" Ord. map & small lake where mobbed by Black-headed Gulls, across Inver River & along its tributary which flows N. a little W. of a scarp, to lovely "flow bog" in which R. D. Praeger found Sax. Hirculus on 5.7.1920 (while I was working margin of Lough Garve!). On way from E. slope of Crochravar saw much nice ground, some Carex pauciflora, lots of C. limosa & Vacc. Oxycoccos; & in marsh Carex filiformis fruiting abundantly, & at N. end of lake some nice ground with [[Hydrocotyle?]], Stellaria uliginosa, &c. In Praeger's marsh, now very dry & easily crossed, saw everything possible except Sax. Hirculus, but as the area is very large & I was very hot & getting tired I could not possibly say it is not still there & must try again with Meikle next week.

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