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IRISH BOTANY. 89 
A. Gray, Man. -~ — United States, 5th ed., p. 500 
(1867). "OQ. A. Far 
‘Rosvus Baxkerr ‘che v. W. Moyle Rogers has now identified 
the shall rhamnifolian peinbhe reported from Cantire and aie 
(Journ. Bot. 1898, 338) as R. Bakeri F. A. si es, described in 
Record Club Report, 1887, 120.—C. E. Satu 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Contributions towards a Cybele Hibernica, being Outlines of the Geo- 
raphical Distribution of Plants in Ireland. Second Edition, . 
and Reeiarp W. Scuntty, F.L.8. Dublin; Ponsonby: London; 
Gurney. 8vo, cloth, pp. xevi, 588, map. Price 12s. 6d. net. 
Flora of the County Donegal, or, List of the Flowering Plants and 
erns, with their localities and distribution. By Henry 
Cuicuester Hart, B.A., F.L.S. Dublin; Sealy’: London ; 
-Nutt. 8vo, cloth, pp. xxiv, 392, map 
A yew edition of the Cybele Hibernica se been for many years 
a desideratum, as the earlier issue (1866) was not only difficult to 
procure, but was practically obsolete. Although there is even now 
lenty of roo work in nd, and discoveries of interest 
doubtless remain to be made, the pages of this Journal during the 
last thirty years have shown that a great advance has taken place 
in our knowledge of the “distressful country” in its botanical as 
well as in other aspects. Many important papers on thie Irish flora 
have appeared also in the Jrish Naturalist and in the Proceedings of 
the Royal Irish Academy ; while separate works, such as The Flora 
of North-east Ireland, Mr. Allin’s Flora of Cork, and now Mr. Hart's 
Flora of Donegal, have dealt more or less exhaustively with definite 
districts. It was high time that all this material should be correlated. 
It is of course well known that the production of a new edition 
of this Cybele had occupied the time and thought of Mr. A. G. 
More during the last ten years of his life, and the eogedeel editors 
have carried out his wish in bringing his undertaking to a satis 
with Irish botany, they had the additional advantage of close 
intimacy with More, and, as they say in their preface, ‘‘a fuller 
acquaintance wi with his views than was possessed by other Irish 
botanists.” 
_ The hundred pages of introductory matter saan lists of the 
principal books, papers, MSS., and herbaria relating to the Flora of 
ieclaad, followed by the inteotietion proper, in which the physical. 
features and climate of the country are dealt with, the flora is com- 
pared with that of England, and other pre reliminaries coiiienkel with 
panne go on are discussed. A table ot ie throughout the 
districts, originally iireated by & he late Professor Babington, 
is followed by the y of the work. The **excluded species” are 
