284 The Irish Naturalist. [December, 



with commendable thoroughness. We can hardly point to a 

 single record of any value that is not duly entered. The 

 interesting inland localities of Scirpus Tabcrnccmo7ita7ii from 

 Lough Neagh {Flor. N.E.I.) and of Cctrex distans on Lough 

 Erne {IN.., i., 113) might have been quoted. The Fermanagh 

 record of Trollies {IN, v., 18S), calls for mention. Elatinc 

 Jicxandra and Carcx xanthocai'pa have been recorded from 

 Armagh {IN., ii., 184, 215). Since modern confirmation of 

 old records is aimed at it, is a pity that so many early North- 

 eastern records are left unconfirmed. 



Errata are similarl}^ remarkably few — and the few that occur 

 only render the absence of others the more conspicuous. 

 Holywood in Co. Down is spelled Hollywood throughout the 

 book. Its mediaeval designation of Sanctiis Bo^.ats shows the 

 correctness of the one "1" in the modern name. The great 

 Island of Aran in Galwaj^ Ba}^ is referred to throughout as 

 " Aranmore." This is a misnomer to which we ourselves plead 

 guilty in past years. It would appear that along the West Coast 

 "Aranmore" alwa^^s means the Donegal Aran ; the largest of 

 the Galwa}^ Bay islands being known as " Inishmore " or the 

 " Great Island of- Aran." Rhyiichospora fusca is stated not to 

 occur east of long. 8°, but Mr. Vowell's station cited on p. 391 

 lies 16 miles east of that line. Several unpublished records from 

 Tipperar}^, King's Co., Westmeath, and Roscommon, in the 

 writer's possession, confirm this eastward extension. Brenan's 

 Glendun (Antrim) record oi Pyrus Aria is attributed to Barring- 

 ton and Vowell. The reference to Lett's find of Lycopodiuin 

 clavatum in Armagh is erroneous. The writer's Enniskerr}^ 

 record oi Ridnis Iciccostachys is transformed into " Enniscorth)", 

 Wexford." Carbury (bottom of p. 402) is in Kildare, not in 

 Meath. Carditis pratensis cannot be described as " abundant 

 in the North." It is certainl}' common in Donegal, but it is 

 ' distinctly rare in Derry and Antrim, and is one of the scarcest 

 plants of Down and Armagh. The several colonies of Cariim 

 verticillatum in North Antrim preclude its being satisfactorily 

 described (p. xlvii) as a species which occurs in the South 

 and West, and is absent from the East. 



With a reference to typographical errors this fault-finding 

 may come to a timely conclusion. These again are remarkably 



