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verticil latum, Epipactis pahistris, Jiincus obtusijio?2is, Potamoge- 

 to?i colorahis, Scirpus pauciflortis, and Carex tcretiuscula, are 

 very rare, and instead a number of plants of dry soils make 

 their appearance — Arabis hirsuta, Coronopus didymus, Malva 

 moschata, Centaurea Scabiosa, Vcrbascum Thapstis, Ono?iis 

 arvensis, Cotyledon, often in abundance. The feature of the 

 flora most deeply impressed on my mind is certainly the 

 abundance of the rare Feshica Myuros. In the new Cybele the 

 only record for District III. is Ferrybank (the extreme 

 southern corner), Marshall and Shoolbred, 1896. It is strange 

 how this grass so long remained unnoticed. It is common in 

 many places from end to end of both counties. 



The totals as regards list-making in Carlow followed closely 

 those for Kilkenny, 232, 123, 44, and 27 species for four days' 

 work ; total 426, phis critical plants. I look forward to 

 publishing Topographical Botany when 500 species or over are 

 on record for each of the forty Irish vice-counties. 



I took advantage of the Dublin Field Club excursion to 

 Enniscorthy on August 13 to list a couple of hundred plants 

 for Wexford, and on the 14th put in my last day's work along 

 the ridge of low hills that divide Kildare from Wicklow, near 

 Blessington. A group of calcifuge species that nourished here, 

 Spcrgula, Digitalis, Lepidium hirium, Jasione, Aira flexuosa, 

 Athyrium, &c, were additions to the Kildare list; and the last 

 find of the season was the addition of Galitcni uliginostim to 

 the flora of Wicklow and of District IV. 



Postscript. — Since the above was written, I have received 

 from Messrs. Groves and Arthur Bennett a number of critical 

 plants collected on the trips referred to above, which they 

 have kindly named for me. Among them, the following 

 appear to constitute new district-records : — 



Fumaria confusa, Jord.— III. Kilkenny — Granny. 



F. Borael,Jord — III. Carlow— near St. Mullin's. 



Potentilla procumbens, Sibtli. — II. S. Tipperary— by the Suir 

 near Goold's Cross. III. Careow — Killedmond. 



Valeriana IYlikanii, Syme.— VII. King's Co.— Lough Goura. 



Myosotis collina, Hoffni. — III. Careow— 011 walls at Bagenalstown 

 With the exception of the Lough Neagh shores (where several 

 maritime plants grow) the only inland station in Ireland. 



