igoo.] Hart. — Remarks on Cybele Hibernica. 41 



Pinus sylvcstris, L.— The people who "have any Irish" in 

 Fanet, Co. Donegal, know the Scotch fir as ' Gyoos " {Guiinhas) ; 

 and the silver is " Gyoos bany That from the bog is called Gyoos dhu. 

 Joyce gives several names derived from Guiinhas (2nd Ed., vol. ii., 

 p. 358), and more could easily be added. But he says it is a 

 question whether the place is named from the living tree or 

 from bog-deal. The statement, however, that " the absence both 

 from the spoken language and from the place-names of Ireland 

 of any native name for the tree would tend to prove that it had 

 become quite rare if not extinct in very early times " is unwar- 

 ranted. O'Reilly gives the above word and also pin-cratn^ no 

 doubt modern. 

 The Cybele credits Donegal with 722 species and sitb-species. 

 To these I add 12 as above, making 734. This may be taken 

 as the number down to 1894, since when, though I have made 

 many explorations and discoveries, I have published nothing 

 but a few short notes, accounted for in the Cybele. Since that 

 time also I have had useful help from Mr. Hunter (the 

 rediscoverer of the Irish Spurge in Donegal), in Inishow^en. 

 Hieracia are alreadj' dealt with. They are not included in this 

 total, except the forms (22 in number) selected for enumera- 

 tion in the Cybele. Of that number Donegal is credited 

 with JO (!) forms. My receut researches add 7 more of 

 the said Cybele list, bringing the flora total up to 741. The 

 manner in which, however, the Hieracia are enumerated, 

 varieties being raised to sub species, or even to species at 

 pleasure, renders numerical computation almost hopeless in 

 this genus. I would, however, add some well-marked forms 

 to the total from m}^ foregoing list, which are not recorded 

 hitherto from Ireland, viz. : H. sparsifolitcvi, H. proxhmim^ H. 

 {saxifragum) orimeles, making the total 744. Brambles are to be 

 counted as only one all round, which is a relief. I will, however, 

 enumerate the Rubiis forms I have had named from Donegal. 

 The full localities for the following list will be found in my 

 Flora of Donegal. I will also enumerate (unnumbered) the 

 names of rare Donegal plants for which I have found new 

 localities, also to be found in the Flora, or else in a paper 

 on Inishowen and Fanet excursions during the season of iSgS."* 

 So that the following remarks refer mainly to information 

 relative to Donegalplants which was tmavailable to the editors 

 of the Cybele, 2nd Edition. Plants numbered are additions to 



^ Jotirn. Bot., xxxvii., 1899, 



