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The Ifish Naturalist, 



March, 



Types of distribution. — Inishturk corresponds closely with 

 Clare Island, Achill Island, and the Mullet as regards the 

 representation in its flora of the various types of distribution ; 

 and in view of the remarks on this subject made in my papers- 

 dealing- with the flora of those areas T , no analysis of the 

 Inishturk flora appears necessary. The flora, too, like that of 

 the adjoining areas referred to, is strongly calcifuge. Only 

 one of the " calcicole A" group of ' 5 Cybele Hibernica * occurs 

 — namely, Carlina vulgaris ; four of the " calcicole B " group— 

 Anthyllis Vulner 'aria, Tussilago FarJ r at a, Leontodon hirtus, Carex 

 glauca ; and one ''calcicole C" plant, Antennaria dioica ; in 

 all, six species out of 56. 



Comparison with neighbouring areas. — Full lists of the 

 phanerogamic flora of all the larger western islands having 

 now been published — Iiiishbofin, Inishturk, Clare Island, 

 Achill Island (to these ma}* be added the peninsula of the 

 Mullet)— it becomes possible to make comparisons between 

 their respective floras. Certain details of such comparisons 

 are both interesting and curious, but the exigencies of space 

 preclude my doing more than draw attention to the relation 

 between area, elevation, and total flora, and, following that, to 

 list the Inishturk plants which do not grow on the neigh- 

 bouring and larger islands of Iiiishbofin and Clare. 



* I.X., xii., 277 ; xiii., 265 ; xiv . 229. 



" J Chaiacete omitted in all cases, since the Iuishbofin Characeae have 

 not been worked. 



