82 NOTES ON KAY's ' HORTDS SICCUS.' 



Papers relating to tue Flora of Ireland. 



Babington, Professor C. C. — Recent additions to the Flora of Ireland. 



Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. vi. p. 328 (1841). 



New British Carices, id. vol. x. p. 363 (1842). 



Gage, Miss C. — Plants of Ratldin. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. v. 



p. 145 (1850). 

 Hincks, Rev. Dr. — On the Flora of Ireland. Ann. and Mag. Nat. 



Hist. vol. vi. pp. 1, 126. 

 Moore, David. — Botany in Ordnance Survey, co. Derry. Vol. i. 1837, 



pp. 9-11, and pp. 6-8 of Notices, plates 4, 5. 

 Portlock, Capt. — Botany of Parish of Templemore, ' Snrvey of co. 



Derry,' 1835 (ascribed to D. Moore in edition of 1837). 

 Sampson, Rev. G. V. — Memoir of co. Londonderry (1814). Cat. of 



Plants, pp. 152-171. 

 Trench, Miss.^-Mag. Zool. and Bot. vol. ii. 



NOTES ON RAY'S 'HORTUS SICCUS.' 

 By Henry Trimen, M.B., F.L.S. 



In the first volume of this Journal, p. 32, will be found a notice of 

 the existence, in the Botanical Department of the British Museum, of 

 this interesting relic of the great English naturalist. It consists of 20 

 books of different sizes, each containing about 30 sheets of thin, rough 

 paper, on which the specimens are sown. The parcels are distinguished 

 by letters of the alphabet, and an MS. alphabetical catalogue (appa- 

 rently written by Dale, and not, as was stated in the notice above 

 alluded to, by Ray) gives references to all the specimens but those in 

 the last three fasciculi, which, perhaps, do not form really a part of 

 Ray's herbarium. The collection has been badly used ; many of the 

 specimens have been cut out. Probably, some of the labels, too, are 

 in Dale's writing, which it is difficult always to distinguish from 

 Ray's. There is no apparent order in the collection, the plants having 

 probably been laid in as they were collected. 



The bulk of the species are European. Switzerland, Italy, and 

 Sicily are best represented : there are a few from Belgium, Holland, 

 and Germany. The extra-European species are probably from Con- 



