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Mountain, Ballinahinch, county Galway. This gentleman was 

 supposed not to have always given due acknowledgement to 

 his fellow-labourers, and was therefore regarded with some 

 jealousy; but this is no reason for suppressing his name, when 

 he was early in his notice of a plant. 



Thalictrum minus is found in all the four provinces of Ire- 

 land ; it was found at Newcastle, county Down, by Mr. 

 Templeton, in 1793. Smith mentions T. majus as found by 

 him near Mallow, county Cork. 



p. 6. Anemone Apennina. Mr. Mackay gives Underwood's 

 authority for its having been found above thirty years ago 

 growing in shady spots near the ground now occupied by 

 the Glasnevin garden. Now Mr. Underwood furnished a 

 catalogue of plants, which was published in the Dublin 

 Society Transactions in 1803-4, in which he inserted this 

 plant as found wild in Ireland. Mr. Templeton sent him 

 queries respecting this and other plants in that catalogue, 

 and I lately read Mr. Underwood's reply, in which he says 

 that he had never seen it wild, but had inserted it on Dr. 

 Wade's authority. Dr. W. has it in his Plantse Rariores, but 

 adds that he cannot take upon him to say that it is truly in- 

 digenous. It grows freely in gardens near Glasnevin. 



p. 8. Ranunculus arvensis. Mr. M. inserts this plant as found 

 in corn-fields near the Man-of-War, county Dublin. Mr. Tem- 

 pleton found it at Agnew's hill, and in Mr. Barklie's shrubbery 

 at Inver near Larne, but thought it probable that it might 

 have been from seed mixed with corn. It is the R. arvorum, 

 arvensis, echinatus of Threlkeld, who gives between Raheny 

 and Kilsaughan, county Dublin, as a habitat, flowering 

 amongst corn. It is also mentioned in Underwood's cata- 

 logue as a native of Ireland. I am not sure whether these 

 notices are to be considered as additional authority for its 

 being native, or as confirming Mr. Templeton's suspicion. 



p. 9. Caltha palustris var. /3. radicans. Mr. Templeton 

 brought this variety into his garden, where it soon lost its 

 peculiarities in a different situation. This confirms the pro- 

 priety of not making it a species. 



p. 10. Helleborusviridis. The specimen referred to in the her- 

 barium of the Cork Institution, which was collected and pre- 

 sented by the late Mrs. Hincks, is there marked as from the 

 Botanic Garden, and I never heard of its being found wild 

 by Mr. Drummond. Smith, however, states it as found 

 wild at Tallagh, county Waterford, and Doneraile, county 

 Cork. Dr. Wade says he found it near Dundrum ; but Mr. 

 Underwood says that he never saw it wild, so that it is not 

 unlikely it was an escape from a garden and soon eradicated, 



