256 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



as characteristic of South-western Europe or of Eastern North 

 America. 



A short "introduction" is devoted to a general physical 

 description of the district, its rocks and soils, its climate, its 

 vegetational subdivisions,, its plant formations and natural growths, 

 the character of the flora, and an outline of the progress of botanical 

 investigation locally. This is followed by a "Topographical Section," 

 in which each county is considered separately, the more interesting 

 places or more convenient tourist-centres being chiefly described, 

 and their most noteworthy plants enumerated, and references added 

 to published sources of fuller information. Tourists will appreciate 

 the information regarding the means of access and centres to work 

 from and where one may reside ; while the derivations and meanings 

 of the place-names, and the brief references to past history add to 

 the value and interest of the work. 



The "Systematic Section" extends to 107 pages. In it the 

 distribution is indicated under each species, localities being given 

 only where the species is limited in its range, and notes being added 

 with regard to peculiarities of distribution, while the relations to 

 nature of soil and to man's influence are also stated. The arrange- 

 ment and nomenclature " are almost without exception those 

 employed in ' Cybele hibernica ' and 'Irish Topographical Botany," 

 the names in use in the "London Catalogue," ed. 10, being added 

 where they differ from those used by the author. 



A number of photographs illustrating the characteristic scenery,, 

 rock-formations and plants, sketch-maps and other illustrations in 

 the text, and five coloured maps of the west of Ireland, reduced 

 from ordnance surveys, and showing the orographical and petro- 

 graphical features of the country, add to the value and usefulness 

 of the book, which will be indispensable not only to botanical 

 tourists in its area but to all botanists interested in the distribution 

 of plants, and more especially in the British flora. 



Good indexes to the several sections render access to the 

 information it contains easy. 



