REFERENCES. ix 



Contains two small lists of county Down plants. This was the first 

 attempt at a county Flora in Ireland. While many of the names are 

 correct there are some which are erroneous, and others which it is im- 

 possible to say with certainty what plant was intended. For this early 

 contribution to the botany of the north we are indebted to a former 

 Dublin Society. The Physico-historical Society employed a collector 

 to make a hasty survey, and the results were embodied by Harris in Ms 

 history of the county. 

 Smith and Sowerby — English Botany, London, commenced 1790. 



Occasional references to north of Ireland plants. 

 Smith — Flora Britannica,4 vols., London, 1800-1804. 



A few notices of plants found in northeast Ireland. 

 Dawson Turner — Muscologia Hibernica, Yarmouth, 1804. 



North of Ireland localities scanty, and mainly supplied by Templeton. 

 M'Skimmin — History of Carrickfergus, Belfast, 1811. 



Localities for a few plants growing about Carrickfergus. 

 Sampson — Cha,rt and Survey of the County of Derry, London, 1814. 



Supplies an alphabetical list of plants, which is, however, very in- 

 complete, and includes at least 40 plants erroneously named. 

 Anonymous (an Irish Gentleman) — Scientific Tourist in Ireland, London, 

 1818. 



Mentions a number of plants that occur in each county. 

 Hooker and Taylor — Muscologia Britannica, London, 1827. 



A few localities for mosses in the north of Ireland. 

 Smith — English Flora, ed. II., 4 vols, London, 1828. 



Refers to a few local plants. 

 Thomas Urummond—Mnsci Scotici, Vol. III., Belfast, about 1829 or 

 1830. 



This book is of the nature of a fasciculus having no letterpress, but & 

 number (114 species) of mosses glued down to the blank pages. There is 

 no introduction, nor any explanatory matter, the only items written 

 in being names and locaHties for the plants. Some of the specimens 

 purport to be Scottish, but a large number have been collected in Ireland, 

 and especially in the north of Ireland. The author was elected member 

 of the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society in December, 

 1828, and the three volumes of his Musci Scotici are in the Society's 

 Library. Thomas Drummond came from Forfar, and was the Curator 

 appointed when the Belfast Botanic Gardens were formed. _ His stay in 

 Belfast was short, but tbe materials for this volume were mainly collected 

 here, and it is probable that his volume III. was specially prepared for 

 the Belfast Society. 



Anonymous (but known to have been prepared by Lady Kane, and the 

 localities mainly supplied by John White)— Irish Flora, Dublin, 

 1833. 



