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those for the varieties of Taraxacwn and Agrostis are certainly 

 of little importance. 



MiscKi^LANKous Objections. 



Having thus dealt with the numerous charges of omission 

 brought against us, there remain many scattered objections 

 to be considered. First of all let us dispose of the remaining 

 21 items in the list of 44 already partly discussed in the pre- 

 ceding paragraph. Six of these remaining items deal with 

 highly debatable points on w^hich we are content to differ from 

 our critic. These are Bartsia viscosa, Melampyrum sylvaiicumi 

 Euphorbia amygdaloides, Salix phylicifolia^ S. Moorez, and 

 Eriophoiiun latifolmm. Four other items, in so far as they 

 impute error to us, are instances of purely captious criticism, 

 ^')iiQSQ.2ire,A7ich7isasempervire7is, Mertensia maritima, Orobanche 

 minor^ and Trichomanes radica^is. The first species we distinctly 

 mark as naturalized, and give ample evidence to justify its 

 more favourable treatment in XII. than in XI. ; the second 

 species we did not state to be decreasing in Donegal. We 

 said, and we now reiterate, that it is decreasing in Ireland as 

 a whole. Mr. Hart himself (/^/^r. Donegal, p. 204) fears that it 

 is extinct in one of its Donegal stations. The third species, 

 Oroba7iche minor, in all the numerous records that came under 

 our notice (save Mr. Hart's) was set down as parasitic on 

 Trijoliimi pratense. We passed over Mr. Hart's record as 

 superfluous, our stations for District V. being already 

 numerous enough, and did not " gratuitously" make a general 

 statement in conflict with his evidence, as he accuses us of 

 having done. We simply overlooked his reference to Ononis 

 and Lotus. The objections to our treatment of the fourth 

 species, Tricho7nanes radicans, we do not fully understand. 

 Our offence is apparently nothing more serious than this, that 

 we did not credit Mr. Hart with the publication of Mr. 

 Mahony's discovery. 



In the case of y^r/^?;//^/^ vulgaris, our statement "nowhere 

 a common species " must be modified, as the plant appears to 

 be common in the North. Another item, Lithospermum 

 arvense, is a correction of one of our critic's mistakes. In 

 dealing with Nepeta Glecho^na, Ayum maculatum, and Carex 

 stricta it is very difficult with the available materials to find a 

 terse, yet accurate, expression for their general distribution in 



