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have made his name familiar. R. M. Barrington botanised 

 Ben Bulbeu, Lough Ree, and Lough Erne, the former two in 

 conjunction with R. P. Vowell. S. A. Stewart sur\^e3^ed 

 Lough Allen, Rathlin Island, and the Shannon mouth. 

 Dr. ScuU}^ commenced his successful researches in Kerry. 

 T. H. Corry was engaged in exploring Lough Gill when he 

 lost his life. N. Colgan began a detailed survey of county 

 Dublin. H. C. Levinge made the important discoveries in 

 Westmeath which he has recorded in this Journal. G. E. H. 

 Barrett-Hamilton, C. B. Moffat, and Miss Glascott did good 

 w^ork in Wexford. R. A. Phillips attacked the large and 

 interesting county of Cork. 



In 1888 Stewart and Corry's Flora of the North-east of 

 Ireland appeared — a large and valuable contribution to the 

 Irish flora — followed in 1895 hy a voluminous Supplement. 

 Ireland was favoured too b}" predatory incursions, as in daj'S 

 of yore, from across the channel. A number of well-known 

 English botanists — H. and J. Groves, E- S. Marshall, F. J. 

 Hanbury, W. A. Shoolbred, E- F. Linton — visited different 

 parts of our island, and contributed materially to the working- 

 out of difficult and critical plants, which had not been fully 

 studied in Ireland. And now at length we have the new 

 edition of Cybele Hibernica, edited by two of the ablest 

 botanists in the countr5% embodying all that is valuable in 

 previous works, the whole mass of information above referred 

 to, and much original research besides. 



Of the book itself it is impossible to speak too highl}^ The 

 deeper one dips into it, the more apparent become the care and 

 accuracy show^n on every page, the masterly grasp of Irish 

 botany displayed by the editors, the critical sifting which has 

 been applied to the great mass of material dealt with. It gives 

 keen pleasure to take some favourite genus or species and 

 examine the manner in which it is treated, and to note the 

 judgment and lucidity which are constantly exhibited. Every 

 portion of the book improves under a minute and rigid 

 scrutiny ; and if, in any of the following pages, we appear to 

 carp at trifles, it is because the broader features of the book 

 are really above criticism, and its very excellence causes a 

 temptation to magnify details. 



