2 The Irish Natwalist. January, 



dozen new county records, is that by Prof. Johnson and Miss 

 Knowles on plants in the Levinge herbarium^. A large num- 

 ber of short notes published in this Journal supply material 

 which goes to swell the records of the 3^ear. A remarkable 

 feature of the year's publications is the fact that, with the 

 exception of those contained in the paper by Prof. Johnson 

 and Miss Knowles, every new county record which has been 

 published, has appeared in this Journal. A continuance of 

 this happy state of affairs would much facilitate future refer- 

 ence by botanical workers. 



Of unpublished matter, a good amount has come into my 

 hands, and is classified and listed below. I am again under a 

 debt of gratitude to many helpers. Mr. W. A. Barnes has 

 continued his observations on the Meath and Cavan floras ; 

 Mr. C. J. Lilly has furnished a number of notes of missing 

 plants of various counties. I have also to acknowledge my 

 indebtedness, for specimens or for information, to the follow- 

 ing : — Capt. Barrett-Hamilton, Prof. Birmingham, Rev. S. A. 

 Brenan, N. Carrothers, Mrs. Clements, Miss Evelyn Cradock, 

 J. H. Davies, Miss Maude Delap, Rev. W. W. Flemyng, P. H. 

 Grierson, Rev. Canon Hartley, Miss Annette Hemphill, Rev. 

 W. F. Johnson, Mrs. Frank Joyce, W. F. de V. Kane, Miss 

 KnowleS; Mrs. Leebod}^, Rev. Canon Lett, T. A. Mapother, 

 Miss Massy, Joseph Meade, F. W. Moore, S. A. Moore, Miss 

 Charlotte O'Brien, R. A. Phillips, H. W. Pugsley, Dr. George 

 Scriven, S. A. Stewart, W. N. Tetley, W. J. C. Tomlinson, C. 

 Waterfall, and the Hon. Mrs. W3mne. 



The best plant of the 3^ear is Glyceria feshicaformis, a Medi- 

 terranean maritime grass new to the British Islands, which I 

 had the good fortune to find growing along several miles of 

 shore on Strangford Lough ; its habitat and range, and the 

 interesting problem of its occurrence in Ireland, I have dealt 

 with in this Journal (xii., 255-258),^and Dr. Rendle has figured 

 and described the plant, from Strangford specimens, in the 

 Journal of Botany (xli., 353-356, tab. 455). Two Hieracia, 

 H. Orarium and H. rival c, are also additions to the Irish' flora. 

 Some important extensions of the range of rare plants have 

 been chronicled diiring the 3'ear. The finding of Pi7ig2iicula 



* Johnson and Knowles : The Levinge herbarium. Set. Proc R.DS., 

 (n.s.) X., 122-132. 



