2S The hish NaturalisU Februarj-, 



ADDITIONS TO " IRISH TOPOGRAPHICAI. BOTANY" 



IN I 906- I 907. 



BY R. I,I,OYD PRAKGER. 

 [Read before the Dublin Naturalists' Field Club, I9tli November, 1907.] 



Two 5'ears have now elapsed since, in a paper entitled " Irish 

 Topographical Botanj^ : Supplement, 1 901-1 905," and pub- 

 lished by the Royal Irish Academy,"* I summed up the 

 additions to our knowledge of plant distribution in Ireland, 

 which had been made during the fiv*e-year period mentioned. 

 The two years which have now succeeded have been fairly 

 fruitful, and a considerable list of new count}' records, in- 

 cluding some very interesting plants, has now to be dealt 

 with. 



The most complete piece of work carried out has been Miss 

 Knowles' surve}^ of the Barony of Shanid,- resulting in a 

 plant-list larger than that previously existing for the whole 

 of Co. lyimerick (of which Shanid forms about one-seventh), 

 and the addition of about 60 plants to the county flora. 

 Some of these are very valuable additions. Rosa stylosa, dis- 

 carded from the Cork flora as a mere escape, must now be re- 

 admitted to the Irish list on the Limerick evidence. Glyceria 

 Foiicmidi is also new to Ireland ; G, feshtccsformis has its only 

 previous Britannic habitat in Co. Down ; Rosa hibcrnica, as 

 previously known, was confined to the north-east; while Rosa 

 glauca and Epilobmin angiistifolmvi have each only one pre- 

 vious station in the southern half of Ireland. It should be 

 remarked that some of these plants were published in time 

 to be included in my 1 901 -1905 Supplement, and therefore 

 are not given in the lists which follow. 



^ Proc. R.I. A., xxvi., Sect. B. No. 2. 

 » Irish Nat. xvi., 1 85-201. 1907. 



