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Considering how few of Watson's Germanic type plants reach Ire- 

 land (nine only having been found by Mr. D. Moore, and of these but 

 six in Connaught), and looking at the wide English range of the three 

 species above named, I cannot but think they should be classed with 

 the Ophrides, as lime-loving plants, belonging to the English rather 

 than to the Germanic type. 



From what has been said, it is hoped that any botanist who is de- 

 sirous of weighing the characteristics of the " Burrin Flora" may now 

 be enabled to make a somewhat better estimate than that attempted by 

 myself six years ago. 



The striking differences between the vegetation of the granitic and 

 micaceous districts of Connemara, and of Kerry, when compared with 

 the flora of the " limestone plain," which lies between them, are very 

 remarkable; whether suggestive or not of a more recent elevation of 

 the latter, or whether the influence of climatal conditions and of the 

 subsoil, be sufficient to account for their features. 



A few more* corrections remain to be made respecting individual 

 plants, mentioned as found at Castle Taylor ; and may I here be per- 

 mitted to remark that, however mortifying, it is the plain duty of any 

 naturalist who has once chronicled an error to take the first opportunity 

 of setting it right. A mistake cannot too soon be acknowledged, which, 

 if left standing, may unintentionally mislead others. 



Of the supposed additions to the Irish Flora, as given in my paper, 

 four are at least unsatisfactory, viz., Epipactis media, which, upon a 

 re -examination, I am inclined to refer rather to E. latifolia, though in 

 some respects it resembles E. ovalis, a plant that might well be ex- 

 pected at Garryland. Let us hope that any botanist who shall have 

 the opportunity will not forget to search diligently for this scarce 

 species. Potamogeton lanceolatus: my specimen differs altogether from 

 the Anglesea plant. I am disposed to think what I gathered was a re- 

 markably slender variety of P. ollongus. I have seen the same from 

 Scotland, sent to me as P. lanceolatus. Alopecurus agrestis and Lolium 

 italicum (with probably Bromus commutatus and Vulpia bromoides) were 

 no better than "Colonists," sown unintentionally or by design, and 

 which, possibly, may not be permanently established. 



Iris foetidissima and Geranium pratense were too probably planted 

 where I saw them. 



Tragopogon pratense was, I believe, T. minus (certainly not the T. 



