132 The Rey. Dr. Hincks on the Flora of Ireland. 
p- 243. By some mistake, originating perhaps in the list sent 
to Mr. Mackay, the habitats for purpurea and rubra are the 
same, so far as Mr. Templeton is concerned. These habitats 
are more correctly given under purpurea, but they really 
belong to rubra, as it was ascertained to be the rubra of 
Hudson, from his herbarium in Mr. Lambert’s possession. 
Mr. T. does not appear to have met with purpurea, though 
he might have called his plant so, till he had the opportunity 
of comparing it. , a 
p. 245. S. amygdalina, stated to be found “ by the side of the 
Bann, at Fairhead, among rocks,” Mr. Templeton. The 
notice belonged to pentandra, and has been transferred (by a 
mistake. pardonable enough amidst various communications) 
to amygdalina, which Mr. T. appears not to have found, 
though he had it in his garden. The above appears as one 
habitat, but is really two; “ by the side of the Bann, and at 
Fairhead, among rocks,” the places being at a considerable 
distance. Mr. T. found it in three places—1st, im 1793, 
near Ballycastle, but then considered it as introduced; 2nd, 
apparently wild, near the Bann; and, at a still later time, 
among the rocks at Fairhead. 
p. 248. Mr. Templeton early proposed the union of several 
of the species combined by Sir W. Hooker under fusca. In 
1793 he wrote to Professor Martyn, that a willow he called ros- 
marinifolia, fusca and repens, were only varieties ; but in1794, 
having got a plant of S. rosmarinifolia from London, he told 
Mr. Dickson that he saw that he had been mistaken respect- 
ing it. He included S. prostrata and ascendens as other 
varieties, which he mentioned to Dr. Taylor in a letter in 
1814, so that he anticipated the union of these species made 
by Sir W. J. Hooker, and adopted by Mr. Mackay. 
p- 285. AsPpHODELE&.—Dr. Smith, in his ‘ Waterford, 
states that Asparagus sylvestris is wild on the sea-coast at Tra- 
more. Threlkeld and K’EKogh had both previously stated it to 
be wild on the sea-coasts, and I think it is in Mr. Tighe’s ca- 
talogue of maritime plants, but I have not the list to refer to. 
It is found on the opposite coasts of England and Wales, 
and it is reasonable to think that the gentlemen mentioned 
either found it or some plant mistaken for it. The Juniperus 
Sabina, which is mentioned by Threlkeld, Smith, and others, 
Mr. Templeton conceived to have originated in Lycopodium 
alpinum, which is found on the mountains, referred to as ha- 
bitats of savin. They might have been indifferent botanists, but 
we have no ground for suspecting them of wilful falsehood. 
Remarks of the preceding kind might perhaps be increased, 
but these are what occurred to me, and they may be thought 
by some of little use. In communicating them, I comply with 
