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LIST OF FUNGI GATHERED DURING THE EXCURSIONS AT THE 

 26TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CRYPTOGAMIC SOCIETY OF 

 SCOTLAND, AT BOAT OF GARTEN, STRATHSPEY, SEPTEMBER 1900. 

 Issued as a pamphlet to members of the Society. The list occupies 

 five pages. Entoloma erophilum, Fr., new to Britain, was discovered 

 by Dr. Plowright. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



IRISH TOPOGRAPHICAL BOTANY. By Robert Lloyd Praeger, 

 B.A., B.E., M.R.I. A. (Dublin, published at the Academy House, 

 19 Dawson Street, 1901. IDS. 6d.) 



The " Cybele Hibernica," issued by David Moore and A. G. 

 More in 1866, and re-issued in 1898 with many additions, "founded 

 on the papers of the late A. G. More " and on the labours of the 

 editors N. Colgan and R. W. Scully, and of numerous contributors, 

 has been the authority on plant-distribution in Ireland ; but, though 

 a very important work in this respect, it has not supplied the 

 information in detail for the counties, and it has not been possible 

 to compare the flora of Ireland with that of Great Britain. To 

 remedy this defect, Mr. Praeger, in 1895 resolved to prepare a 

 Topographical Botany of Ireland comparable to Mr. H. C. Watson's 

 " Topographical Botany " of England, Wales, and Scotland, to be a 

 companion volume to " Cybele Hibernica." 



To the work he has devoted his vacations during five years, and 

 he has received "generous assistance from many fellow-botanists." 

 When he undertook the work in 1895 the state of knowledge as 

 regarded county-lists was, that of the 40 counties and vice-counties 

 into which Ireland is divided for this survey, the lists for 1 1 included 

 over 400 in each, for 7 they included from 200 to 400, and "of the 

 remaining 22 divisions, 100 species per division would have been a 

 high estimate of the average number of plant records available." 



In the present work the average number of records for each of 

 the 40 divisions is 628 species, a proof of the zeal and success 

 with which Mr. Praeger has carried out his self-imposed task. The 

 flora, as enumerated here, reaches a total of "1019 species, or 

 1138 species and subspecies." 



As compared with Scotland the flora shows a less proportion of 

 northern and of eastern or Germanic types. On the other hand it 

 includes species of the Cantabrian type, and one or two of the North 

 American type not known from Great Britain. 



A good explanatory introduction is followed by a bibliography 

 of books and papers on the Irish flora, a table of distribution, and 

 an enumeration of the several plants, with, for each, a list of the 

 divisions in which it has been found, and against each division one 

 or more localities with the name or initial of the finder in each. 



