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with regard to critical forms. Mr. Arthur Bennett, Mr. Hanbury, and 

 the late Prof. Babington have been constantl}- consulted, and have given 

 their usual generous aid. The Hawkweeds Mr. Hart has especially 

 sought for, and Mr. Hanbury has himself visited Donegal. The result 

 is the publication of the best Hawkweed list yet made out for any part 

 of Ireland. CharacecB, on the contrary, have been manifestly neglected, 

 only three species of this order being recorded. We note that several 

 Donegal records for Characece published in this Journal by Messrs. Groves 

 have been omitted; nor are these the only recently published records 

 of Donegal plants which do not find a place in Mr. Hart's Flora, though, 

 so far as we have observed, the omissions are not serious. The 

 list of Sedges is a rich one, no less than 38 species being recorded. 

 This portion of the book— the ''Flora" proper— is well arranged and 

 exceedingly interesting. Its only fault is its far too frequent typogra- 

 phical errors. Erysimm, Gensta, ctxrpitosa, cc:ri)ithifoiiie^ Bieninghauseniatia , 

 district (ior distinct\ Aspkium, Isoetis, are a few of them. 



The date of More's '• Recent Additions" is variously quoted as 1872 

 and 1886, and of Dickie's Flora of Ulster, as 1864, 1866, and 1886; the 

 name of one of his correspondents is variously spelt Gwyn or Gwynn ; 

 C. More appears for C. Moore^ and A. G. Moore for A. G. More. 



"We notice here, too, at intervals, the same neglect of recent botanical 

 work, of which we have before complained. For instance, Utrictdaria 

 neglecta is stated to have been " only very recently discovered in Ireland 

 by Mr. Scully, in the Co. Kerry." It was discovered there ten years 

 ago, and has since been recorded by Mr. Colgan from Co. Dublin. 

 Trollius europaus '• confined to Donegal in Ireland ; " W. M'Millan's 

 Fermanagh record (/.A'., v., 188), cannot be altogether ignored. Plantago 

 media has several recent records besides those quoted J uncus obtusiflorus 

 can no longer be reckoned among the rarer Irish plants. 



The essaj'^ on climate which is appended has for its only fault its 

 length. The many pages of tables of temperatures, &c., over the whole 

 of the British Isles strike us as out of place in a work of the kind. A 

 sweeping curtailment of the 60 pages devoted to this subject (we are 

 told that the large type in which it appears was due to a mistake), and 

 the substitution instead of a larger type in the body of the work would 

 have vastly improved the book. By a strange perversity, that portion 

 which will ever be most consulted has been allowed the smallest type. 

 The book concludes with an interesting glossary of Donegal plant-names 

 and plant-lore, a subject often neglected in local floras. 



The "Flora of Donegal" will be warmly welcomed, and its author 

 deserves all congratulations on its production. The possession of the 

 volume signifies an immediate large accession to our knowledge of Irish 

 botany. The best feature of the book is the care with which distribution 

 both horizontal and vertical has been wor ked out; the worst omission 

 the complete absence of any history of Donegal botany, or bibliography, 

 of that subject. 



R. Lr.. P. 



