RECENT ADDITIONS 



10 THE 



FLORA OF IRELAND, 



&c., &c. 



The present Paper originated in a desire to review tlie progress that 

 has been made during the past six years in investigating the localities 

 and distribution of Irish Plants ; and I have, therefore, ■with the help of 

 my friend and partner, Dr. Moore, put together in a connected form 

 the several items of information ■which have accumulated up to this 

 time, from various sources, and which, together with the results of our 

 own occasional excursions, will furnish a tolerably complete record of 

 what has been done since the summer of 1866, wh^n our book, the 

 " Contributions towards a Cybele Hibemica" appeared. 



In a country so well known as Ireland, that has been searched 

 botanically, since the time of Threlkeld and Patrick Browne, by 

 Templeton, Wade, Drummond, Mackay, &c., and in our own day by 

 other resident as well as travelling botanists, it cannot be expected 

 that many flowering plants remain to be added to the Elora. It is 

 rather in the regular and systematic survey of the country, in the more 

 exact and critical discrimination of species, and in the study of the 

 introduced plants that advance may be looked for. That the last few 

 years have not been altogether barren of results wiU be evident when 

 we come to recapitulate the various addenda. 



For the long list of new plants and new localities which I now 

 have the pleasure to lay before the Academy, we are in great measure 

 indebted to the diligence and kindness of the numerous friends who 

 have continued to entrust us with the result of their observations ; and 

 we are glad to think that among them are some whose attention and 

 interest were perhaps first awakened, or at least directed to a profitable 

 end, by the use of our Cybele Hibemica. 



Foremost among those to whom we are thus indebted are : — 



Mr. 11. Clayton Browne, jun., of Browne's Hill, who has contributed 

 a number of localities from the County of Carlow, etc., and has thus 



