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Tue ‘ Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy’ for April con- 
tains two interesting papers upon Irish Botany—one, ‘On the 
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gives a comparative table of the plants found on five distinct 
groups of islands on the West Coast of Ireland. The areas of the 
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five, wit e number of species recorded from each, are a 
follow :— 
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sexi Spories. Spauiee. 
Arran Islands, Galway ...... 10781 372 130 
Aran Island, Donegal ...... 4355 232 23 
Inishbofin, Mayo ............ 2312 3038 36 
Blaskets, Kerry ..........+.++- 1560 174 8 
Tay Island, Donegal ......... 785 145 1 
The papers upon Tay Island and Arran Island, on which the 
abstracts are based, will be found in this Journal for September, 
1879, and January, 1881, respectively. The species peculiarto the 
Blaskets, as contrasted with the other groups, are :-—Cardamine 
sylvatica, Lychnis Githago, Stellaria graminea, Scilla nutans, Luzula 
sylvatica, Carex disticha, C. pilulifera, Hymenophyllun unilaterale. 
One species, Keleria cristata, is new to District 1 of the ‘ Cybele 
Hibernica.’ 
We have received from Messrs. Marshall Japp & Co., two 
little works, to which no writer’s mame is attached, entitled 
respectively ‘Plant-life’ and * Easy Lessons in Botany.’ The 
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pared, this little book is well suited for placing in the 
young ers as a prelude to more advanced works; and the 
few pence which it costs will be well spent upon a copy. 
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