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portion of their food; in different species the serratures v 
in their development, being in some irregularly broken, while 
in others they are regularly serrated. In Crypticus they are 
very minute, and with the dilated form of the bill may be 
adapted for seeking a peculiar kind of food. | 
XXXV1.—On the recent Additions to the Flora of Ireland. 
By Cuaruzs C. Basineton, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., &c. 
BELIEVING that a catalogue of the additions to the Flora of 
Jreland, made since the publication of Mr. Mackay’s work, 
would be an interesting Supplement to the paper by Dr. 
Hincks, on ‘ The Early Contributions to the Flora of Ire- 
land,’ contained in recent Numbers of the Annals, I have, as 
far as lies in my power, collected together the scattered no- 
tices of newly-discovered plants, natives of that country, and 
now present them in a connected form. 
1. Cerastium atrovirens. Common on the sea-coasts, C. C. B. 
2. Elatine Hydropiper. Near Newry, Mr. Thompson, of Belfast ; 
and at the Lagan Canal, where it enters Lough Neagh, Mr. 
D. Moore, Hook. Br. Fl. 166. 
3. Rubus carpinifolius. At Ma’am in Cunnamara, Galway, in Aug. 
1835, C. C. B., Mag. of Nat. Hist. ix. 129. 
4. R. Kehleri (. fusco-ater. At the same place and time as the 
bast, CC, 2. 
5. Callitriche pedunculata a. vera. The Mullet, Mayo, July, 1836, 
C. C. B., Mag. of Zool. and Bot. ii. 124. 
6. C. pedunculata B. sessilis. Newport, Mayo, Aug. 1840, C. C. B. 
7. C. platycarpa. Newport and Achil Isle, Mayo; and near Sligo, 
Aug. 1840, C. C. B. 
8. Fedia auricula. Oughterard, Galway, Aug. 1835, C.C. B., Mag. 
Nat. Hist. ix. 129. 
9. Anthemis maritima. Bear Haven in S.W. of Ireland, Hooker, Br. 
Fl. 308. 
10. Leontodon (Apargia) alpinus (Jacq.). Mr. J, Ball found a single 
specimen which appeared to agree with the description of this 
plant better than with that of any other species on the moun- 
tains south of Glen Cree, in Wicklow, in 1837, Annals of Nat, 
Hist. il. 29. 
11. Erica vagans. Islet on the coast of Waterford, near Tramore, 
Dr. Burkett, Hook. Br. Fl. 159. 
12. Cuscuta epilinum. Near Newport, Mayo, Aug. 1840, C. C. B, 
