132 The Rev. Dr. Hincks on the Flora of Ireland. 



p. 243. By some mistake, originating perhaps in the list sent 

 to Mr. Mackay, the habitats for purpurea and rubra are the 

 same, so far as Mr. Templeton is concerned. These habitats 

 are more correctly given under purpurea, but they really 

 belong to rubra, as it was ascertained to be the rubra of 

 Hudson, from his herbarium in Mr. Lambert's possession. 

 Mr. T. does not appear to have met with purpurea, though 

 he might have called his plant so, till he had the opportunity 

 of comparing it. 



p. 245. S. amygdalina, stated to be found " by the side of the 

 Bann, at Fairhead, among rocks," Mr. Templeton. The 

 notice belonged to pentandra, and has been transferred (by a 

 mistake, pardonable enough amidst various communications) 

 to amygdalina, which Mr. T. appears not to have found, 

 though he had it in his garden. The above appears as one 

 habitat, but is really two ; " by the side of the Bann, and at 

 Fairhead, among rocks/ 5 the places being at a considerable 

 distance. Mr. T. found it in three places — 1st, in 1793, 

 near Ballycastle, but then considered it as introduced ; 2nd, 

 apparently wild, near the Bann ; and, at a still later time, 

 among the rocks at Fairhead. 



p. 248. Mr. Templeton early proposed the union of several 

 of the species combined by Sir W. Hooker under fusca. In 

 1 793 he wrote to Professor Martyn, that a willow he called ros- 

 marinifolia, fusca and repens, were only varieties ; but in 1794, 

 having got a plant of S. rosmarinifolia from London, he told 

 Mr. Dickson that he saw that he had been mistaken respect- 

 ing it. He included S. prostrata and ascendens as other 

 varieties, which he mentioned to Dr. Taylor in a letter in 

 1814, so that he anticipated the union of these species made 

 by Sir W. J. Hooker, and adopted by Mr. Mackay. 



p. 285. Asphodele^e. — Dr. Smith, in his 'Waterford/ 

 states that Asparagus sylvestris is wild on the sea-coast at Tra- 

 more. Threlkeld and K'Eogh had both previously stated it to 

 be wild on the sea-coasts, and I think it is in Mr. Tighe's ca- 

 talogue of maritime plants, but I have not the list to refer to. 

 It is found on the opposite coasts of England and Wales, 

 and it is reasonable to think that the gentlemen mentioned 

 either found it or some plant mistaken for it. The Juniperus 

 Sabina, which is mentioned by Threlkeld, Smith, and others, 

 Mr. Templeton conceived to have originated in Lycopodium 

 alpinum, which is found on the mountains, referred to as ha- 

 bitats of savin. They might have been indifferent botanists, but 

 we have no ground for suspecting them of wilful falsehood. 



Remarks of the preceding kind might perhaps be increased, 

 but these are what occurred to me, and they may be thought 

 by some of little use. In communicating them, I comply with 



