176 September, 



PLANT RECORDS WANTED. 



BY R. IXOYD PRAEGER. 



Now that " Irish Topographical Botany'' has appeared, it may 

 be useful to publish a list of the more conspicuous gaps in the 

 county-lists, compiled in connection with the final season's 

 field-work, and now revised. It has, indeed, been suggested 

 that such a list might have appeared in the book {ante, p, 

 154). While thinking it would hardly have been in place 

 there, I gladly take the opportunity of publishing it here, and 

 hope its publication will lead to the early filling up of many 

 of the more evident oversights, either from existing material 

 in the hands of some of my fellow botanists, or by means of 

 field-work. 



The following lists show the commoner plants not yet on 

 record for each of the forty county-divisions. The usual test 

 for a " commoner plant" has been one that is on record for 

 thirty or more of the divisions : but in the case of sea-coast 

 plants, and of a few others of well defined partial range, it has 

 been necessary to employ a different standard. A species has 

 been occasionally included although a record exists, if that 

 record is unsatisfactory on account of doubtful determination 

 or probable introduction. 



A few of the plants in these lists are no doubt genuine 

 absentees. For instance, the absence or rarity of Pimpinella 

 Saxifraga, CEnanthe Pkellandrium, Parnassia pahistris, Scla- 

 ginella selaginoidcs, in the South of Ireland appears to be a fact ; 

 and several common plants of the east and centre are 

 apparently genuinely absent from the wilder portions of the 

 west, from Kerry to Donegal. I have not attempted to dis- 

 criminate between such probably real absentees, and others 

 whose non-inclusion in the county lists is evidently purely the 

 result of oversight : it is in fact most desirable that attention 

 should be paid to both groups, and their presence or absence 

 definitely decided. 



I may add that it is 1113^ intention to have this paper 

 reprinted, and I shall be glad to send copies to anyone who 

 will help to look up any of these missing plants as opportunity 

 offers. 



