The Rev. Dr. Hincks on the Flora of Ireland. 127 
Mountain, Ballinahinch, county Galway. This gentleman was 
supposed not to have always given due acknowledgement to 
his fellow-labourers, and was therefore regarded with some 
jealousy ; but this is no reason for suppressing his name, when 
he was early in his notice of a plant. 
Thalictrum minus is found in all the four provinces of Ire- 
land ; it was found at Newcastle, county Down, by Mr. 
Templeton, in 1793. Smith mentions 7. majus as found by 
him near Mallow, county Cork. 
p- 6. Anemone Apennina. Mr. Mackay gives Underwood’s 
authority for its having been found above thirty years ago 
growing in shady spots near the ground now occupied by 
the Glasnevin garden. Now Mr. Underwood furnished a 
catalogue of plants, which was published in the Dublin 
Society Transactions in 1803-4, in which he inserted this 
plant as found wild in Ireland. Mr. Templeton sent him 
queries respecting this and other plants in that catalogue, 
and I lately read Mr. Underwood’s reply, in which he says 
that he had never seen it wild, but had inserted it on Dr. 
Wade’s authority. Dr. W. has it in his Plante Rariores, but 
adds that he cannot take upon him to say that it is truly in- 
digenous. It grows freely in gardens near Glasnevin. 
p- 8. Ranunculus arvensis. Mr. M. inserts this plant as found 
in corn-fields near the Man-of-War, county Dublin. Mr. Tem- 
pleton found it at Agnew’s hill, and in Mr. Barklie’s shrubbery 
at Inver near Larne, but thought it probable that it might 
have been from seed mixed with corn. It is the R. arvorum, 
arvensis, echinatus of Threlkeld, who gives between Raheny 
and Kilsaughan, county Dublin, as a habitat, flowering 
amongst corn. It is also mentioned in Underwood’s cata- 
logue as a native of Ireland. JI-am not sure whether these 
notices are to be considered as additional authority for its 
being native, or as confirming Mr. Templeton’s suspicion. 
p- 9. Caltha palustris var. 8. radicans. Mr. Templeton 
brought this variety into his garden, where it soon lost its 
peculiarities in a different situation. This confirms the pro- 
priety of not making it a species. : 
p- 10. Helleborusviridis. 'The specimen referred to in the her- 
barium of the Cork Institution, which was collected and pre- 
sented by the late Mrs. Hincks, is there marked as from the 
Botanic Garden, and I never heard of its being found wild 
by Mr. Drummond. Smith, however, states it as found 
wild at Tallagh, county Waterford, and Doneraile, county 
Cork. Dr. Wade says he found it near Dundrum; but Mr. 
Underwood says that he never saw it wild, so that it ig not 
unlikely it was an escape from a garden and soon eradicated, 
