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In a copy of Threlkeld's " Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum," 

 belonging to the Koyal Irish. Academy, are a few MS. notes left by 

 some former owner, from which we have extracted those that seemed 

 sufficiently important. One of these memoranda supplies a probable 

 clue to the author of the list of plants in Harris's " Down," whose 

 name appears to have been Isaac Butler.* 



Last, but not least, we gratefully acknowledge the kindness of Dr. 

 E. Terapleton, Deputy Inspector- General of Hospitals, who has most 

 liberally favoured us with the loan of the MS. "Catalogue of the Native 

 Plants of Ireland," which was drawn up between 1794 and 1810 by 

 his father, the eminent naturalist, John Templeton of Belfast. 



In enumerating the plants added to the Irish Flora since 1866, it 

 will be convenient to arrange them under the following heads : — 



Stjmmaet of AdDITI03SS. 



Undoubted natives, 8. 



Trifolium subterraneum, E. Salix Grrahami, N". W. 



Trifolium glomeratum, E. Draba ritpestris, iV. W. 



Scirpus parvulus, E. Qalium crueiatwm, JV, E. 



Aira uliginosa, W. Pyrola rotundifolia, Midi. 



Of these the last three, printed in italics, have before now been 

 recorded as Irish, though in 1866 we did not think that there was 

 sufficient authority for their admission as such. 



All eight are well known to occur in Great Britain, but at the time 

 when first found in Ireland neither Scirpus pa/rvulus nor Aira uliginosa 

 had been gathered for many years. 



Two of the eight are Western and Alpine, thus showing that some- 

 thing may yet remain to be done in the mountain botany of this 

 country. 



Four are Eastern, three of them having been found on the coast of 

 Wicklow, within a short journey from Dublin. Of these, Trifolium 

 glomeratum is the only species of our present addenda which belongs to 

 Watson's Germanic or South-eastern type. 



Drdba rupestris is given in the seventh edition of Withering's 

 "Botanical Arrangement," as found plentifully in Leitrim and Sligo by 

 Mr. E. Murphy ; but as JDraha incana was not recorded by Mr. Murphy, 

 though it is abundant on these mountains, while D. rupestris is very 

 scarce, there is reason to fear a mistake was made in the name. 



Galium crueiatum, long ago recorded in Harris's "Ancient and 

 Modern state of the County of Down," as occurring near the Cathedral 

 at Downpatrick, had quite escaped our notice, as it had that of Mactay ; 

 but having ascertained that it still grows in this locality, and has 

 recently been found at Colebrooke, Fermanagh, we are very glad to 

 restore it to its proper place in the Flora. 



* A Botanist, and maker of Astrological Almanacks, who died in 1756. 



