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A more serious fault, and indeed one of the very few things in the book 

 to which we must really take exception, is the fact that the information 

 given is not always up to date. For instance, in the comparison between 

 the floras of Donegal and Derry (p. 59), Mysotis callina, Carex stricta, 

 C.riparia, Trisetum, and Ceterach are included in the list of " species occur- 

 ring in Donegal, but not in Derry." All of these are known to occur in 

 Derry, and have been on record from that county for some years, in this 

 Journal, or in the Proceedings of the Belfast Field Club. Similarly, 

 Meconopsis cavibrica and Carex paludosa should be added to the list of Derry 

 plants not in Donegal (p. 58). Again, Hieracium Somerfeltii, H. gothictifu. 

 Car Una, Polygonum Bistorta, Carex filifarmis, Schlerochloa rigida, S. loliacea are 

 listed as " in North-west [Donegal], but not in North-east" [Antrim and 

 Derryl- These all have been recorded from Antrim or Derry. The 

 remarks on certain north-eastern plants on pp. 65-66 are similarly mis- 

 leading. Galium Mollugo of the north-east has been shown to be G. erectum 

 so far as observation has gone ; the former cannot at present be included 

 in the north-eastern flora. Utricularia intermedia, Rumex Hydrolapathuvt 

 and Carex paludosa have been found recently, and published. Carex 

 teretiuscula was found in Derry as far back as 1894, and published. Milium 

 effusu7Ti is in Antrim. Triticum caninum has been definitely recorded. The 

 note on Draba incana, too, is misleading. Since the " small and scarce " 

 note was published (/.iV!, Feb,\Z(^\ — not Jan.) it has been recorded as 

 " abundant and fine" {Proc. B.N.F.C, 1894-95.) Senebiera didynia and 

 Lavatera arborea (p. 72) do reach the north of Ireland (Antrim) — the latter 

 as native there as anywhere else. Nasturtiutn palustre should be added 

 to the list on p. 6i. Carex pauciflora as an Irish plant is altogether 

 ignored. In a word, the author has not paid the same attention to the 

 recorded flora of District XII. as to the unrecorded flora of District XL ; 

 but in view of the minute comparisons into which he enters he ought to 

 have done so. All the records above referred to may be found in the 

 Irish Naturalist^ or in the publications of the Belfast Field Club. 



We now come to the main part of the work, and the most important — 

 the detailed list of plants, with localities, elevations, &c., which occupies 

 188 pages, or a little less than half the book. Here Mr. Hart is at home, 

 and the information is as clear and full as could be desired. It is this 

 portion of the work that best exhibits the vast amount of field-work 

 carried out, and the close observation of the worker. 



Among the quotations of localities will be found many interesting 

 observations on the habitats and range of the plants, on their standing 

 as natives, on old and doubtful records, and on segregate or critical 

 forms. The working out of segregates is somewhat irregular. Rubus 

 'and Hieracium are given in detail, but Arctium is "lumped" under A. 

 Lappa, and Euphrasia similarly. The nomenclature is chiefly that used 

 in the first edition of Cybele Hibernica (1866), and however one may object 

 to modern name-juggling, a number of these appellations certainly 

 cannot stand. The effect of the introduction into the list of a number 

 of modern names of segregates or critical plants among the familiar and 

 convenient — if out of date — names of thirty years ago, is peculiar. It 

 is gratifying to find frequent potes by our best critical botanists quoted 



