1903. 23 



ADDITIONS TO ''IRISH TOPOGRAPHIC AI, BOTANY" 



IN 1902. 



BY R, I,I<OYD PRAKGKR, B.A. 



During the year 1902 a remarkable advance has been made 

 towards the completion of the county lists of Irish plants. A 

 very considerable number of new county records has been 

 published, and a still larger number have been reported to me 

 by many workers, and are herein published for the first time. 

 The most important papers dealing with Irish topographical 

 botany which have appeared during the year are Miss Armitage's 

 notes on I^imerick plants,"* G. R. Bullock-Webster's report on 

 his Chara hunt in Monaghan,^ W. Moyle Rogers' important 

 paper " On the distribution of Rubi in Great Britain "^ [and 

 Ireland], R. W. Scully's record of additions to the Kerry flora,* 

 and my own account of explorations in the North-east® in 

 1902 ; all these contributions, except my own, refer to work 

 done during 1901 or previously. My two papers " On Types 

 of Distribution in the Irish Flora "^ and "Gleanings in Irish 

 Topographical Botany," '^ also deserve mention as the most 

 important summarizings of results issued during the year. 



Of unpublished material supplied to me a rriagnificent con- 

 tribution has been made by R. A. Phillips, who supplies fifty- 

 six new county records, including a number of rare plants, 

 from the southern half of Ireland. As preface to his notes, he 

 writes as follows : — 



Siace the pubUcation of " Irish Topographical Botany" in August, 

 1901, I have been taking desultory notes of the distribution of some of 

 the rarer, as well as of the commoner, plants of which record is wanted 

 to complete the county lists in that work. ^ The following lists show the 

 species I have been able to add to the county-divisions I have visited 

 The Rudi have all been determined by Rev. W. Moyle Rogers, F.Iv-S., to 

 whom I am much obliged. 



■• fourn. Limerick Field Club, ii., No. 6, 138-143. 1902. 



2 /m/i A^a/., xi., 141-6. 1902. 5 Irish Nat., 200 210. 1902. 



^ Jotirn. Bot.,-x\., J50-7. 1902. Proc. R.I.A., xxiv. B., l-6o. 1902. 



4 Irish Nai., xi., 156-9, 1902. "> Ibid., 61-94. 1902. 



