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and was employed by Sir Joseph Hooker in the analyses for the 

 plates, the study-set of the plants is at the British Museum. 



From what has been adduced, it will be manifest that Sir 

 Joseph Hooker's affidavit was based on misconception, and stated 

 what were supposed to be, rather than what were, the facts of the 

 case. Dr. Seemann states that his set was retained ** according to 

 agreement"; Sir Joseph says that the only set he " possessed or 

 could have had consistent with his engagements " was one selected 

 from " the duplicates that remained over after the arrangement and 

 distribution"; but it is clear that the latter description can 

 scarcely describe the specimens selected for and submitted to the 

 monographers, and employed by them in preparing their diagnoses 

 of the new species. 



It is the more difficult to understand how Sir Joseph Hooker 

 formed this erroneous impression, as the study-set of Seemann's 

 plants remained at Kew until 1862, when they were purchased by 

 the Trustees, and transferred to the British Museum, Mr. Bennett 

 noting their acquisition in the published Report of the Department 

 of Botany for 1882-3 as "the type-collection of the Botany of 

 H.M.S. ' Herald:" 



PLANTS NEAR BALLYHYLAND, CO. WEXFORD. 

 By C. B. Moffat, B.A. 



Seeing in the ' Journal of Botany ' for January a list of some 

 plants found in the southern part of the county of Wexford, I am 

 not without hope that a few notes from the north of the same 

 county may possess some small degree of interest. In my attempted 

 selection of the more noticeable species found in my neighbourhood 

 I anugreatly aided by the counsels of Mr. A. G. More. 



The district surrounding Ballyhyland, where the following notes 

 were taken, is a somewhat hilly country, remote from the sea, in the 

 baronies of Scarawalsh and Bantry, and lies between the Rivers 

 Urrin and Boro, both of which rise in the Blackstairs Mountains 

 and discharge themselves into the Slaney. Blackstairs Mountain, 

 and the Rivers Slaney, Urrin, and Boro, may therefore be con- 

 sidered as boundaries to the region generally referred to below. 

 The signs * and f prefixed to the names indicate that the plant is 

 certainly (*) or probably (f) introduced. 



Banunculus peltatus Fries. Boro and Urrin, and intermediate 

 streams (Mr. H. C. Hart reports only R.floribundus from the Slaney). 

 "^^Papaver Argemone L. Aughnaclappa ; occurring as colonist in 

 wheat-fields, rarely. 



Lepidmn Smitliii Hook. Common by road-sides, banks, and walls. 

 \Viola tricolor L. (type). Killoughrum, abundantly in a small 

 bog near the Urrin. Generally rare in my district. 



'^'Saponaria officinalis L. Road-side west of Enniscorthy ; well 

 established. 



Malva moschata L. Frequent along lanes, and in hedges, &c. 



