1 1 S The I) is A Na tu ra lis t. ft J arch , 



value of his find, and communicated this new station tor 

 Euphorbia hiberna to A. G. More. The next visit to the 

 island of which there is any botanical record was that of A. G. 

 More himself, in company with R. M. Barrington. Attracted, 

 no doubt, by Macmillan's discovery, these botanists landed 

 on Inishturk on their way back to Westport from exploring 

 Inishbofin in 1875, and spent a few hours there listing plants ; 

 but the only list published 1 was one of twenty species which 

 they had not observed on Bofin. They obtained Euphorbia 

 hiberna, and their list also includes Trifolium atvense (an 

 unexpected plant), Lychnis diuma, Sedum Rhodiola, Carex 

 dioica. During the thirty } T ears that have since elapsed no 

 botanist appears to have visited Inishturk. In the middle of 

 July last niy wife and I sj)ent a week on the island, and 

 devoted much of the time to a survey of the flora. By the 

 kindness of Rev. W. S. Green and Mr. Townshend Gahan, a 

 little Congested Districts Board shed of galvanised iron, built 

 on a rock on the very edge of the ocean, opened its hospitable 

 door to receive us ; and here, in a room ten feet by eight, 

 surrounded by bulwarks of Portland cement, dynamite, and 

 fishing lines, we roasted sixpenny chickens, baked bread, 

 fried mackerel (all in the one pan), ate, slept, wrote, and dried 

 plants, with an enviable satisfaction. 



Floristic Notes. 



Total Flora. — The total flora of Inishturk (Phanerogams and 



Vascular Cryptogams), according to the standard used in 



" Irish Topographical Botany," numbers 323 species, or 329 



species and sub-species. I shall, first of all, list these, using 



symbols to indicate comparative frequency: — c. = common; 



f. frequent ; r. - rare ; 1.= local ; v. = very ; 1, 2, &c. =seen in 



1, 2, &c, stations.. 



Ranunculus Flammula, Caltha palustris, 1. Cardamine hirsuta, r. 



v. c. Fuinana capreolata, 1. flexuosa, 1. 



acris, f. confusa, f. Cochlearia officinalis, f. 



repens, f. Nasturtium officinale, f. danica, r. 



Ficaria, f. Cardamine pratensis, r. grsenlandica, r. 



1 More (A. G.) : Report on the Flora of Inish-Bofin, Galway. Proc.R.I.A. 

 (2), vScience, ii., 578. 1876. 



