58 The Irish Natiualist. March, 



sheets from Dr. Liudberg's herbarium. An honest and careful study 

 of these plates and of the appropriate text will go far towards con- 

 vincing the most confirmed "lumper" that for the majority of the 

 segregates the distinctions are real if not always easy to be graspe dor 

 expressed. 



The following are the species accepted by Dr. Liudberg for northern 

 Europe — A. viinor Huds., A.alpestris Schmidt, A. /m/^;mi- Schmidt, A. 

 pubescens (Lam.) Buser, A. plicata, A. pastoralis, A. micans, A. s/rigtilosa, A. 

 subcrenata, A. acutangtila, A. glotnerulans and A. obitisa, all of Buser, A. hirsuti- 

 caiilis of the author himself and A. aeiitidens of Buser as amplified b}' 

 the author so as to include three of Buser's species. Of 'these four- 

 teen species only the three first-named are Irish. These also occur in 

 Great Britain, and both in Ireland and in Great Britain the first is by far 

 the most wide-spread and abundant, and the last the rarest. The only 

 form not common to the two islands is the sub-species A. minor Huds, 

 * ;?/zVa«//i- (Buser), Lindb.-fils. This is absent from Ireland, but occurs 

 in Forfar and In\'^rness in Scotland, and in several stations in the 

 Shetlands, 



The second division of the monograph, the systematic or special part 

 gives the fullest possible description and synonymy of each form with 

 an introductor}' synopsis and an exhaustive list of localities arranged by 

 countries, special prominence being given to the area with which the 

 author more particularly deals, Fenuoscandia or Finland and the adjacent 

 peninsula of Scandinavia to which it is joined by the wide Karelian 

 Isthmus. A set of fifteen well executed outline maps of Northern Europe 

 on a sufficiently large scale (6-in. by 8^-iu.), is given, one for each of the 

 forms dealt with and on these the distribution is clearly marked b)- a 

 red dot for each distinct station, so that the peculiar range of each of 

 the segregates can be seen at a glance. The numerous definite British 

 localities given for these forms are taken from herbarium specimens 

 submitted to the author by Messrs. W. H. Beeby, G. C. Druce, H. and J. 

 Groves, E. S. Marshall, and C. E. Salmon. The Irish distribution is 

 mainly drawn from E- F. Linton's paper on the " Distribution of the 

 Alchemilla vulgaris group in Ireland," published in the 9th volume of 

 the Irish NaUiralist (April, 1900), the names of many well-known Irish 

 botanists, Miss M. C. Knowles, R. Lloyd Praeger, S. A. Stewart and others 

 appearing frequently in Dr. Lindberg's lists of localities. To these are 

 added a few localities drawn from material supplied to the author b)' G. 

 C. Druce, C. E. Salmon and the writer of this notice. Although these 

 records add but one county, Dublin, to the hitherto known Irish dis- 

 tribution of the group it may be well to cite them all here. They are 

 as follows : — 



A. pratensis Schmidt— Antrim, Sallagh Braes, 1897, C. H. Waddell 



(h. C. E. Salmon). 

 A. viinor Hudson— Dublin, Ballynascorney, 1881 ; Blanchardstown, 



1903 ; Crooksling Glen, 1903, all N. Colgan in Herb. Colgan. Antrim, 



Sallagh Braes, 1897. C. H. Waddell. 



A. alpestris Schmidt— Dublin, Ballynascorney 1881 and 1903 ; Kelly's 



Glen, 1903 ; Glassamuckey Glen, 1905 ; north slope of Seecaun, 375 



m., 1903, all N. Colgan in Herb. Colgan.— Sligo, Ben Bulben, 1906 G. 



