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7th - 11th March 1953. Still dry & calm with glass even higher then previous week & standing at 30.7 this morning (11th). In afternoon of 11th, walked from Crumlin Cross to Rathfarnham to pick up eggs. Saw the pair of Dippers as usual lately just below Templeogue Bridge where they usually nest I understand & also picked the two mosses (here mounted) off wall near The Poddle R., S. of Willington House.

In forenoon of 11th a ♀ Vespa germanica flying about in motor house in back garden trying to get out & Daisy met the Frog there also about 11 AM.

Grimmia apocarpa [[moss specimen taped to page]]

[[moss specimen taped to page]]
Tortula intermedica.

fide Miss Thomson

15th March 1953 (Sunday) Took 54 bus at 10.20 AM. to Crumlin cross & walked via The Green Hills & Tymon Castle to Balrothery & Firhouse, where caught 12.10 bus home. A very nice dry day, with SE. keen breeze & much sun & blue sky. Glass fell all night to 30.2 & for first time this month below 30.5 or thereabouts. Collected a few mosses - see 3 spp. mtd. on opp. p. -> for Miss Thomson in the places at the Greenhills esker (1) on roadside bank & (2) face of old sandpit east of highest point of the esker.

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15.3.53, cont. Saw Viola odorata just in flower in the usual place just N of Tymon Castle & a few yard further, N. saw a hitherto unknown to us patch of Lamium albsum! 1954!![[strikethrough]] galebdolin [[/strikethrough]]  with one strong flower spike nearly out. The old petal of the  Lamineiem S.of the castle + opposite farm  more seriously diminished. The early Hazel nearly in leaf & several flowers seen on Blackthorn by main road from Crumlin to Tallaght. 
[[moss specimens taped in, with the following annotations]] Weissia crimpas wissa 
crimpa   fruit 
Barbula waguaculata 
Tortula laevipila red veins in leaf.
In back garden a flower spike showing on Caris rigida in Health bed: this from Brendown Mt. Skerry, 1946.
16th March. Flower spikes the showing in Caren stricta against motor-house wall, but antlers not yet free.
Cold E.-S.E. wind, but much hot sun. No Bumble Bees.
19th: 20th March Very dry with east south -east wind  (cold.) but much sun on 17th + 20th + on last we were able to sit in shelter for half an hour on W. side of Kilmashogue Hill be quite warm; Where saw Oxalis in flower + on return to here saw a large ♀ Bumble Bee in lane near Hillcot - probably B. lacorum. Honey Bees on flower of Lauretinus at Whitechurch. Barometer almost up once more to 30.5 + no sign of change.

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