436 Contributions forwards a Flora Hibhmica, 



various parts of the world : these will insure it respect, even 

 from those who deny it to the elegance, the splendour, and the 

 fragrance of its fine flowers. 



{To be continued.) 



Art. VII. Contributions totvards a Flhra Hibernica, Being a 

 List of Plants not before observed tjoild in Ireland: together tvith 

 New Localities Jbr a fetv of the more Rare Ones. By Edward 

 Murphy, Esq. A.B. Trin.'ColI., Dublin. 



The plants in the subjoined list were principally observed 

 in a botanical and geological tour, which I made for the 

 North-west of Ireland Society, in the summer of 1826. Cir- 

 cumstances have retarded, hitherto, the publication of the 

 Catalogue drawn up for the Society, but their object in insti- 

 tuting researches of this nature being to make known the 

 natural history of the district with which they are more 

 immediately concerned, it will readily be conceded that the 

 means best calculated to attain that end is to record, from time 

 to time, any discoveries which may be made. 



My investigations were confined to the counties of Tyrone, 

 Donegal, and Derry; and, having been undertaken in May, after 

 the early phsenogamous and most of the cryptogamous plants 

 had disappeared, they were not by any means so successful as, 

 under more favourable circumstances, it is reasonable to sup- 

 pose they would have been. But, indeed, the north of Ireland, 

 and particularly the portion of it above mentioned, is far from 

 fertile in botanical treasures. The surface of Tyrone an4 

 Derry, with the exception of a few basaltic fa9ades in the 

 north of the latter, consists of a succession of low rounded 

 hills, invariably covered to their summits with bog, and pro- 

 ducing only a fatiguing repetition of the ^ricae, Eriophora, 

 iScirpi, and Carices, common to such situations. Donegal, 

 though possessing great variety of soil and surface, and the 

 mountains of which, in elevation and the other requisites, are 

 to appearance peculiarly adapted to the growth of alpine 

 plants, is notwithstanding extremely unproductive. I have no 

 hesitation in saying, that a greater number of rare plants may 

 be found in one glen in Carnarvonshire than is afforded 

 by this entire district. That other parts of this country 

 however, are not uninteresting, in a botanical point of 

 view, is abundantly evident in the great variety of plants 

 observed by Mr. Drummond in the county of Cork, as well as 



