6 The Irish Naturalist. January, 



Botany. — As is usual vdth journals devoted to natural 

 history in its wdder sense, Flowering Plants have bulked 

 large in the pages of the Irish Naturalist. Most of the 

 discoveries of the last thirty years have been announced 

 in its pages, and such important works as Colgan's " Flora 

 of the County Dublin," Scully's " Flora of County Kerry," 

 and Praeger's " Irish Topographical Botany " have been 

 foreshadowed by papers by the respective authors in this 

 magazine. Floral survey work has indeed taken a leading 

 place, and the papers published include accounts of the 

 flora of the Fergus Estuary and the barony ol Shanid, 

 Central Clare, Achill Island, Clare Island, Inishturk, the 

 Mullet, the Ferm.anagh hills, the Antrim plateau, and 

 County Armagh ; revisions with many additions of the 

 flora of the Blaskets, Inishmore (Aran Islands), Inishbofin, 

 Lambay ; and im.portant contributions to the flora of Kerry, 

 Wexford, Westmeath and Dublin. Among the writers of 

 these papers are N. Colgan, Miss Knowles, H. C. Levinge, 

 C. B. Moffat, Miss C. O'Brien, R. A. Phillips, R. LI. 

 Praeger, and R. W. Scully. 



Other papers have discussed the characters or occurrence 

 or distribution in the country of certain special plants, such 

 as Potamogeton imdulatns (A. Bennett), Vicia Orobus (C. J. 

 Lilly), Lathyrns maritirmts (R. W. Scully), Spiranthes 

 Romanzoffiana (W. J. C. Tomlinson), Erica Siuarti (E. F. 

 Linton), Lastrea remota, Asplenium Adiantum-nignim var. 

 acMtum, and Equisetum litorale (R. LI. Praeger), Adclanthiis 

 dugortiensis (H. W. Lett), Peziza Adae (J. Strachan) or of 

 groups of plants, large or small, such as Helosciadium (H. 

 J. Riddelsdell), Fumaria (R. LI. Praeger), Characeae (J. 

 Groves and G. R. Bullock- Webster) , Rubi and Rosae 

 (R. A. Phillips, W. Moyle Rogers, R. W. Scully, &c.), and 

 many papers on the lower Cryptogams, including Mosses and 

 Hepatics, (J. H. Davies, H. W^ Lett, D. McArdle, C. H 

 Waddell, &c.). Fungi (J. Adams, W. B. Grove, E. J 

 McWeeney, G. Pirn, Carleton Rea, &c.) ; Lichens (J 

 Adams, M. C. Knowles, &c.) ; Algae (E. A. L. Batters 

 J. Adams, A. D. Cotton, Miss Duke, M.Foslie, Miss Hensman 

 T. Johnson, &c.) ; and Mycetozoa (W. F. Gunn, Carleton 

 Rea, Mrs. Stelfox, C. Torrend, &c.). Except among the 



