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The next botanical paper to be noticed here is entitled " Hints 

 towards a Cybele Hibernica/^ by C. C. Babington^ M.A. 



This paper, which our room forbids printing in extenso, is on 

 page 553, and fills nearly four pages of the Review. The author 

 proposes that Ireland should be divided into twelve provinces, 

 and points out a mode by which the Association may proceed in 

 preparing materials for a Cybele Hibernica. Modes are more 

 easily pointed out than carried out. Yet there is no insuperable 

 difficulty attending the execution of such a design. A society of 

 learned and scientific men, even with but scanty funds at their 

 disposal, are surely capable of performing less than one individual 

 successfully accomplished for the sister island of Great Britain, 

 at least three times as large as the Emerald Isle. It has been 

 stated that one Englishman, unaided, did more for the lexico- 

 graphy of his nation than the forty Academicians of the French 

 were able to do for theirs. Sed " non quovis ligno fit Mercurius ;" 

 " every one is not a Dr. Johnson.^^ 



Our last extract from this very interesting review, p. 537, is 

 from an article called " x\dditions to the plants of Ireland since 

 the publication of ' Flora Hibernica,^ by J. T. Mackay, LL.D., 

 A.L.S. 



"1. Alyssum minimum (DC). First found by Mr. F. Darley and Dr. 

 Wright, near the farmhouse, Portmarnock, in 1817 ; and again in 1837. 



2. HutcJdnsia petrtsa. Old walls at Bandon, etc. 



3. CocJdearia grcenlandica. Eathlin Isle. 



4. Sinapis muralis (Br.), Biplotaxis muralis, DC. 



5. BiantJius deltoides. In a diy, hiHy field near Cork; 1837. 



6. EupJiorbia Feplis. Gan-y's Cove, Waterford. 



7. Silene conica. Sandy fields, Portmarnock, J. S. M. 



8. Silene noctijlor a. Near TuUamore, King's County. 



9. Sedum album. Koofs, Antrim, and walls, ditto, with Sedum rejlexum ; 

 1837. 



10. Acinos vidgare (sic in Eev.), vulgaris {Calamintha Acinos). Port- 

 marnock. 



11. Asparagus officinalis. Shore, Wexford, etc. 

 13. Myosotis repens. 



13. Medicago macidata. 



14. LatJiyrus palustris. Banks of Lagan, Mr. D. Moore. 



15. Polygonum viviparum. Ben Bulben, Mr. E. Murphy. 



16. OpTirys muscifera. Castle Comer, Eev. Mr. Despard. 



17. Epipactis grandijlora. Dunneen, by Mr. G. Whitlaw. 



