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3rd July 1949. Sunday. 

Spent day on plateau alone.  Left hotel about 10:30 AM. & walked up the waterfall lane & on to plateau; then turned up the Pollan Burn & when about 1/2 mile before Lough Fad came on a nice patch of Oak Fern on a shelf about 2 feet above water level on left bank of river - See photo by E.N. Carrathers, 1951. - in rock crevice, where the bank is rocky;  the spot is a few hundred yards below & S.W. of a ruined house on the turf track leading W. from "Gortin" across the Pollan Burn;  the fern is sheltered by a large bush of broom, partly dead, & near a large old Mt. Ash tree;  continuing up the Pollan Burn saw a very stunted Hieracium in seed on rock & saw & captured a fresh ♀︎ Bombus pratorum at flowers of Erica cinerea;  I then left the Pollan Burn & struck up to scarp running westwards of it to place where bush of Salix repens seen on return journey on 25th June & then worked along S. face of scarp for perhaps 1/8 mile;  just S. of the above Salix bush & growing in a crack in the upper flat surface of a large fallen block of basalt was a plant of Antennaria dioica & then as I turned along the S. face of scarp I came on Beech Fern in quantity & in some cases very luxurient, but beyond this & some Rosa spinosissima saw nothing of interest.  Next struck N. & then W. across


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bog towards the Inver River, seeing Cranberry & Carex pauciflora on the way.  Had lunch by Inver River just below its last fork & then once more searched for & failed to find any trace of Saxifraga Hirculus where discovered by Wear & self on 6.7.1914.  Next went NE. across W. branch of Inver & on to some lovely ground with Pinguicula luistanica, Carex limosa & C. pauciflora in quantity, which ground seemed perfect for S. Hirculus but no trace of it could be found;  continued E. +/- along N. edge of bog & at foot of hill forming N. watershed of Inver & tributaries of the Black Burn, passing many nice sedge filled hollows, with Carex ampullacea, C. filiformis, C. limosa & C. pauciflora, in one of which - I think that flowing into Loughascraban - C. filiformis was flowering abundantly.  Next passing E. of Loughascraban I came down the joint outlet of this & Lough Island, seeing a fine clump of ♀︎ Salix repens in fruit on scarp above its right bank & so home by track to Gorin & down to Carnlough at 5.30 P.M. exactly.  On outward journey saw Painted Lady Butterfly at about 900 feet by track E. of Pollan Burn, & near houses in lane saw some Sweet Cicely, which may be the origin of that plant in Carnough Glen below the fall.  Saw "duckweed", L. minor?, on wet place on left bank of Pollan Burn shortly after I turned up it at noon.