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the catastrophe which overtook Zeyher's collection in Hamburg. 

 Some day, perhaps, it may be removed to a new and truly public 

 museum, into which students will be encouraged and tempted to 

 enter by the very aspect of the building itself. 



WESTMEATH PLANTS. 

 By E. F. and W. E. Linton. 



The plants here enumerated are most of them records for 

 District VII. of the CybeU Hibernica (these have an asterisk pre- 

 fixed), and were observed by us while enjoying the hospitahty of 

 Mr. H. C. Levinge at Knock Drin Castle last July. Some of them 

 were detected by the Rev. E. S. Marshall, our fellow-guest for part 

 of the time, and some were pointed out to us by Mr. Levinge 

 himself, whose investigations have done so much to throw light on 

 the Flora of Westmeath. A rainy season had set in, and hindered 

 work during part of our visit; but, thanks to the long preceding 

 drought, many wet localities were unusually accessible, and all the 

 loughs had sunk below their normal level. 



Caltha palustris L. var. ■''procumbens Beck. Fide Mr. Ar. Ben- 

 nett, who writes, " I should name this C. pahistris L. y. jvocumbens 

 (Huth) Beck. MS. in Huth's Mon. Gatt. Caltha, 18 (1891) = C. 

 palustris var. radicans Fries (non Forster)." Shores of Brittas Lake, 

 Knock Drin ; with much variation of the shape and serration of the 

 leaf. Some of the plants of Caltha rooted more or less freely at 

 the nodes, and to these the above note applies. A greater number 

 showed no sign of rooting at the nodes. — Acjuileyia vulgaris L. 

 Apparently indigenous by L. Deraveragh, under Knock Body. 



Papaver dubiuni L. var. '''Lecoqii (Lamotte). Near cultivated 

 ground by L. Deraveragh. 



* Viola silvestris Reich. Knock Ross, by L. Deraveragh. 



Vicia Cracca L. var. '■incana Thuill. By L. Owel. 

 *Pruiius insititia Huds. Roadside hedges near Knock Drin. — 

 *P. Cerasus L. In the Knock Drin Woods ; fruiting. Pointed out 

 to us by Mr. Levinge. 



Rubus Idmus L. var. '^'asperrim.m Lees. Knock Drin, growing 

 sparingly with the type. — R. suberectus Anders. Wood near Quarry 

 Bog, Knock Drin; and Crooked Wood, near L. Deraveragh. — 

 R. jissus Lindl. we saw only where Mr. Levinge had previously 

 detected it, at Drinmore. On the same ground grew a pink- 

 flowered form of R. plicatus W. & N. This species also occurred 

 at the Crooked Wood. — *i?. opacns Focke. Crooked Wood, in some 

 quantity. — */?. carpinifolius W. & N. Crooked Wood. — R. in- 

 curvatus Bab. Frequent in the neighbourhood of Knock Drin, 

 where it was discovered for the first time in Ireland by Mr. Levinge 

 two years previously ; also in the Crooked Wood ; very typical. — 

 R. rhamnifolius (sp. collect.). Noticed at Knock Drin. — R. macro- 



