VOLUME Xlll. 



ADDITIONS TO ''IRISH TOPOGRAPHICAL BOTANY" 



IN 1903. 



BY R. LI^OYD PRAKGKR. 

 [Read before the 'Dublin Naturalists' Field Club, December 8th, 1903.] 



In publishing the third annual summary of additions to the 

 Irish county lists, a very satisfactory advance has again to be 

 recorded. It might have. been expected that last 3^ear's list of 

 207 new county records would not be equalled in any subse- 

 quent year; yet the list for the past year reaches 219, and in 

 point of interest surpasses the results achieved in 1902. The 

 personal authority for the new records is less evenly distributed 

 than was the case last year. Miss Knowles has a list of 22 

 from Limerick; Dr. Scully adds 10 for Kerry S., and 18 for 

 Kerry N. ; Mr. Colgan's Dublin contribution numbers 8 ; for 

 more than half the total (112 out of 219), I am responsible, the 

 divisions mainly concerned being Limerick (9), Mayo W. (26), 

 Sligo (26), and Down (9). For the remaining 49 we have to 

 thank Mr. Barnes, Mr. Lilly, and a number of others. 



The most important papers of the year refer to the botany 

 ofKerry^, Limerick^, Dublin-^ West Mayo*, and Down^ ; and 

 though several of these areas are, botanically, among the best 

 known portions of our island, the papers record a number of 

 valuable additions to the floras of these Divisions. An in- 

 teresting paper of more general bearing, which supplies a 



1 "Scully: Notes on the Kerry Flora, 1902. I.N.^ xii., t.I3-1[6. ;; 



2 Knowles : Notes on some additions to the Flora of County Ivimerick: 



I.N., xii., 249 253. ;^ 



3 Colgan : Some recent records for the Flora of County Dublin. I.N., 



xii., 186-191. 

 -* Praeger : The Flora of Clare Island. I.N., xii., 277-294. 

 * Praeger: Botanizing in the Ards. /.A^., xii., 25. 1-265. 



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