288 Bibliographical Notice, 



" Type in Great Britain, Scottish, inclining to British. 



" Stony places and sandhills ; local. FL June to x\ugust. 



" 1 . Ross-wood, Killarney ; Wade Rar. CHifs at Gap of Dunloe, 

 near Killarney ; Flor. Hib. Mangerton ; /. C. On Sugar-loaf 

 Mountain, Glengariff; I. C. — 3. In a meadow near Mountmellick ; 

 Wade liar. — 4. Shore near Rockfield, Wicklow ; D.M. — 5. Baldoyle ! 

 Portmarnock ! Ireland's Eye ! Flor. Hib. Shore between Clontarf 

 and Raheny ; Wade Rar. — 6. In many parts of the limestone dis- 

 trict of north Clare and Galway ; A. G. M. — 7. Shores of Lough 

 Ree in Westmeath and Longford ; Mr. F. J. Foot. — 8. In various 

 ])arts of Mayo, especially near the large lakes ; A. G. M. — 9. Ben 

 Bulben, Sligo {T. calcareum) ; Mr. J. Ball (Bot. Gaz. i. p. 312).— 

 1 2. Newcastle and Dundrum Bay, Down ; Belfast Bay ; Portmore 

 Park and Lough- Beg, Antrim ; Flor. TJlst. On basaltic rocks at 

 Glenariif ; D. M, 



" Ranges from sea-level to 1500 feet or more. 



" T.flexuosum (Bernh.) T. majus (Flor. Hib.) 



« Districts -----6 -89-- 12 

 " Rocky and bushy places ; rare. — 6. On a hill south of Black 

 Head, in Clare ; Mr. F. J. Foot. On the shores of Lough Derg, 

 near Portumna; B. M. — 8. Near Headford, Galway (Mr. Shuttle- 

 worth) ; Flor. Hib. On an islet called Canova, in Lough Corrib ; 

 A. G. M. Near Pontoon, by Lough Conn! Ir. Flor. — 9. By 

 Lough Carra, Mayo ; Mr. J. Ball, who mentions a large form of 

 Thalictrum growing here (A. N. H. vol. ii. p. 35). — 12. At the 

 base of Sheve Donard, on the ascent from Kilkeel ; Flor. Hib. 



*' This is considered by Mr. Bosv^^ell Syme as a ' subspecies,' and 

 placed under T. minus in his edition of English Botany. 



"3. T. flavum (Linn.) — Marsh Meadow-Rue. 



"Districts -234 5678910-12 

 " Lat. 52°-56°. Throughout Ireland, but local. 

 *' Type in Great Britain, English. 



" River-sides and marshy places ; rather rare. Fl. June, July. 



** Quite a local plant, though recorded from nearly all the districts." 



An Appendix contains lists of plants which, there is reason to 

 believe, were recorded erroneously by Dr. Smith in his histories of 

 Kerry, Cork, and Waterford ; and by Dr. Wade as seen by him in 

 the west. 



It will be seen from what we have said that this is really a new 

 and carefully revised Flora of Ireland. Such a book was very 

 much wanted, for thirty years have passed since the publication of 

 Mackay's ' Flora Hibernica,' thirty years of much more active re- 

 search than those that preceded the preparation of that work. It 

 had therefore become nearly obsolete. The authors have wisely 

 omitted descriptions of the genera and species, as they are to be 

 found in the " excellent and portable Floras in the hands of British 



