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graphical Botany of Ireland, of which we stand in much need. 

 The new edition of Cybele Hiber?iica, the publication of which 

 is so anxiously looked forward to, will go far to supply the 

 information relative to plant-distribution in Ireland which is 

 at present difficult to obtain. Supplemented by a county- 

 census, on the lines which I have indicated in these pages 

 (vol. v., pp. 29-37, 1S95), the botany of Ireland may at length 

 take its due place in works purporting to deal with the flora 

 of the British Isles, and no longer be conspicuous only by its 

 absence, as in the census-numbers in the London Catalogue. 



The only group of Irish plants whose county-distribution 

 has so far been published are the Characecs. For these I 

 give stations only where these constitute new county- records. 

 Ranunculus circlnatus, Sibth. 



III. Queen's— canal at Portarlington. 

 V. MeaTh — canal at Enfield ; Lough Crew near Oldcastle. 

 R. trichophyllus, Chaix. 



III. Queen's —Maryborough. 

 Ac|uileg:!a vulgaris, Linn. 



III. Queen's — banks west of Portarlington. 



VII. King's — abundant in meadows and on banks about Clonad Wood, 

 and on limestone cliffs N.W. of Philipstown. 

 Commonly found in suspicious situations, but appears truly wild 

 in these stations. 

 *Papavcr somnlfcrum, Linn. 



. ' . V. MEATh and LouTH — appears quite established on the extensive 

 sandhills that stretch for some miles north and south of the 

 mouth of the Boyne. 

 Neckerla claviculata, N.E. Br. 



IV. WiCKi^ow— rocks at the west side of Luggela lake, 1894. A con- 



firmation of Templeton's record, a century old. 

 Claucium flavum, Crantz. 



V. LouTH — abundant on shores north of Dunany and below Castle- 

 bellingham. 

 Fumarla muralis, Sonder. 



III. Queen's — Maryborough esker. 



V. MeaTh — Oldcastle and Trim. Louth — Boyne mouth and Dunany. 

 VII. King's — common about Edenderry. 

 fSlsymfarium Sophia, Linn. 



V. Kii/DARE— Kilcock. LouTh — Anagassan and Blackrock. On 



waste ground in the neighbourhood of houses, but apparently 

 established. 

 tBrasslca Slnapioides, Roth. 



IV. WiCKi^ow — hedgebank between Greystones and the railway 



station, 1894, and still there. 



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