8 The Rev Dr. Hincks on the Flora of Ireland. 
a second time and even under a different name; yet still it is 
a valuable record, and deserving the attention of the Irish 
botanist. Another old work often referred to, is the Botano- 
logia Universalis Hibernica, or a “General Irish Herbal,” by 
Mr. K’Kogh, published in 1735. This gentleman was a 
clergyman, chaplain to Lord Kingston, and seems to have 
resided near Mitchelstown, the seat of that nobleman in the 
county Cork, to plants in whose garden he often refers. 
The garden of that nobleman’s descendant, the present Karl 
of Kingston, is perhaps the finest in Ireland; and there is 
attached to it, for the use of the gardeners, a library of valu- 
able botanical works, many of them very expensive, under the 
superintendence of the head gardener. Mr. K’Eogh also often 
refers to the Barony of Burren, in the county Clare, from 
which, I think it probable that he was a native of that county. 
His names are nearly the same as those of Threlkeld, his 
publication having taken place within eight years after. To 
notice the medical virtues of plants was his great aim, and 
this is done with respect to cultivated plants as well as wild 
ones; but he states when got in gardens and when found 
wild, so that the work is not without its use in ascertaining 
the native plants then known. His botanical knowledge, 
however, may not have been such as to justify the insertion 
of plants merely on his authority, though it might direct at- 
tention to look for them in the district pointed out. Galega 
officinalis, Asclepias or Swallowwort (species not mentioned), 
Palma Christi or the Greater Spurge, and others, are said to 
be wild in Burren. It is so unlikely that this should be so, - 
that it throws a doubt on his authority; but if the district 
were well examined, it might be found that other plants were 
taken for them, which an indifferent botanist in the then rude 
state of the science might mistake for them, as I have little 
doubt that the Ruta sylvestris, wild rue, also said to be found 
there, was a Thalictrum, as he has not noticed any of that 
genus; and 7. majus and minus are said to be found in an 
adjoining county, and generally known as Meadow-rue*. 
This was suggested to me by a remark of Mr. Temple- 
ton’s, who, having seen it stated that savin grew wild on the 
Mourne Mountains, and having diligently searched for it in 
vain, thought that Lycopodium alpinum, Savin-leaved Club- 
moss, which does grow there, and on other high mountains 
in Ireland, gave rise to the report. It is at once more can- 
did and more probable to suppose that men mistake through 
* My son, the Rev. W. Hincks, F.L.S., informs me that Ceesalpinus 
gave the names Ruta sylvestris and Ruta sylvestris altera, to Thalictrum 
majus and minus, which confirms my conjecture. 
