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and forty inches high ; a caulis simplex invariable ; 

 none branching at the base, and the axillary ramuli 

 almost always present. I have a very correct figure 

 of our E. hib. nearly finished, and pardon me if I say 

 a correct figure of it is very desirable, as none ap- 

 proaches in likeness to our E. hib. but t. 290. Hort. 

 Elth., and, if recollection serves me, in Rivi?i. Tr. 

 Mon. Serapias latifolia about the old cobaltic 

 copper-mine holes, very common in the delightful 

 and romantic peninsula of Mucruss. 



Of'obancke elatior in profusion in the different 

 chambers, &c. of the old abbey at the northern 

 side of Mucruss, together with Polypodium cam- 

 bricum, in a state of great luxuriance. Aspidium 

 Oreopteris I consider as a rare fern, as well as 

 Adiantwn Capillus- Veneris; but as I am forming a 

 collection of them for you, I shall for the present 

 reserve my sentiments on the subject of Irish ferns. 



Do you consider Sc/ice?ins mariscus as rare ? 

 Besides the habitats in PL Rarior. I met with it, 

 but rather sparingly, in the fens at the N.W. side of 

 Mucruss. You cannot conceive, my esteemed and 

 respected friend, how abundant Hymenophyllum 

 tunbridgense is on all the dripping rocks on the 

 mountains in the county of Kerry ; and the un- 

 common state of luxuriance and magnitude which 

 Osmunda regalis assumes on all the islands in the 

 range to the upper lakes at Killarney is truly as- 

 tonishing, looking more like large highly culti- 

 vated shrubs, than a humble fern. 



You will be pleased to present to the Linnaean 

 Society the inclosed remarks on Holcus odorahis 



