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REMARKS ON THE ‘CYBELE HIBERNICA,’ Ep. 2. 
By Rev. E. 8S. Marsnaru, M.A., F.L.S. 
Ir may be thought presumptuous on the part of an English- 
man, who has not had very frequent opportunities of botanizing in 
the Emerald Isle, to offer any comments on this admirable reissue 
by my friends Messrs. Colgan and Scully, who have done their 
work Laity, reapers and well. I have, however, foliswed 
the progress of otany with some attention for a good man 
years; and thes a baat observations may serve to supplement Mr. 
Britten’s more per gee review. 
nder Ranunculus trichophyilus (p. 5) we read:—‘‘ The form 
ith floating 1 amed &. Godronii (Gren.), R 
Drouetii (G R. radians (Rev.).”” This is loose ng ; 
1 R. Drouetit has no floating leaves; and I understand that R 
radians is now referred by our experts to Rk. heterophylius auct. 
an . 
. parviflorus (p. 9). oe introduced in all stations.’ 
Certainty native at Rosslare (Wexfo 
altha palustris var. procumbens Book (p. 10). I believe that the 
Brittas Lake plant cannot be separated from C. radicans vay. 
zetlandica Beeby. 
umaria Borei (p. 18). Add: IV. About Gorey, Macmine 
Junction and Wexford; apparently frequent in the east of this 
coun 
" Tendalia nudicaulis (p. 88). ‘Open to some suspicion of being 
introduced in its only recorded station for Ireland.” Unless the 
Editors have some special knowledge, not here indicated, it is 
difficult to share their scepticism. Teesdalia is a plant 
heaths, banks and sandy wastes, rarely > aried into cultivated 
ground, and then only if creer A ye habita 
Brassica Rapa (p. 47 state of var. | Briggsii H. 
Watson is abundant, at least in some sgn rs, on the southern (lime- 
stone) shores of Lough Mask, both in Galway and Mayo; here it 
grows at a good distance from cultivation, looking thoroughly wild. 
Helianthemum Saaacbliies (p. 478). ‘*In Donegal and Antrim 
the species was either planted or derived from cultivation.” Mr. 
yf 
_ ‘‘the limestone between Donegal and SB sthcwedt et If the 
ra. Is the 
say been planted out, anywhere 
Viola stagnina (p. 25). Add: IX. Limestone hollows at the 
south end of L. Mask, Mayo, in considerable quantity (Shoolbred 
é crates 1895); hybridizing with V. ericetorwm Schrader (V. 
canina uet. 
Cables trigynum (p. 479). Doubtless rightly discredited . 
an Irish plant (a remark which also applies to Draba rupestris) ; in 
