128 The Rev. Dr. Hincks on the Flora of Ireland. 
as the place has been visited by many botanists. Helleborus 
fetidus (Helleboraster maximus, &c. of old writers) is men- 
tioned by both Threlkeld and K’Kogh, the latter of whom 
gives the Sliebh Baughta mountains, between the counties of 
Clare and Galway, and Drumcallagher, county Limerick, 
as habitats. It is marked as a doubtful native in Great 
Britain. 
Mr. Mackay has 8 genera and 24 species of this order. 
Of these the old botanists had 6 genera and 14 species; Mr. 
Templeton, 6 genera and 18 species. Those in which Mr. 
Templeton was deficient, were Clematis vitalba and Helleborus 
viridis, both questionable; Thalictrum alpinum, Ranunculus 
hirsutus and parviflorus, and arvensis, which last he regarded 
as doubtful. At the end I will give a comparative table of the 
genera and species in each natural order. 
p- 17. Matthiola sinuata. Mr. Mackay gives one of the isles 
of Arran as a habitat. Would it not have been well to have 
added, that Smith says he found it at Beal Castle, near the 
mouth of the Shannon, in nearly the same longitude, not 
much to the south, and near the sea? 
p. 22. Threlkeld inserts Nasturtium petreum foliis burse 
pastoris, which is Teesdalia nudicaulis, Hooker, and not a rare 
plant in England. It would be well to have some notice of 
plants said to have been found, but wanting confirmation. 
p-30. Subularia aquatica, “said to have been found in Lough 
Neagh by Sherard.” This is language which seems to im- 
ply a doubt of that eminent botanist having found it there. 
Now we know that Sherard was in that neighbourhood, pro- 
bably in 1696. Ray mentions it on his authority; so do 
Threlkeld and Molyneux, the former of whom gives it the 
name of juncifolia. Mr.'Templeton found it in Lough Neagh 
before 1794, as I find from letters to Dr. Martyn, Editor of 
the Gardener’s Dictionary, and to Mr. Dickson, of Covent 
Garden; so that there can be no reasonable doubt of the 
fact. I think I have heard that it has been seen in Sherard’s 
specimens, preserved at Oxford, but I do not recollect my 
authority. 
p- 31. Viola hirta. My name is mentioned as authority for 
this plant being found at Blarney. I have it in a marked cata- 
logue as found by Mr. Drummond. I am obliged by the 
notice of me, as kindly meant, but I wish it clearly under- 
stood that I do not consider myself as a competent judge. 
In the present instance there is no reason to doubt the plant 
having been found. 
p-.38. Hypericum calycinum, though I think Mr. Mackay 
right respecting this plant; yet perhaps it should have been 
