64 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
at 720 metres and upwards :—Rumea Acetosella, Galium saxatile, 
Vaccinium Vitis-Id@a, V. Myrtiilus, Cailuna vulgaris, Empetrum 
nigrum, Eriophorum vaginatum, and E. angustifolium. On p. 96, 
however, the highest point there stated to be reached by Galium 
saxatile. works out at 640 metres. In the a eens of Kerry, 
Mr. H. C. Hart records Calluna vulgaris at 1000 metres, the highest 
point reached ud the species in the British Islands. In the Swiss 
Bee it gets up to 
np. — Mr. psc gives the i. . = this a. which i is 
synon ymous with Erica ciliaris Huds. (non L.), as ‘‘ var. incana 
auct.,”’ citciontly following the London p Hoe oe seat it is 
age ed as ‘* Calluna Erica var. incana auct.’’ The obscure *‘ auct.” 
ichb. Ic. fl. Germ. Helv. xvii. p. 78, t. 1162, f. 8 (1855). An 
pairs and equally 2 age ae varietal name is Cailuna vulgaris 
var. pubescens Koch, Syn. fl. Germ. Helv. p. 476 (1837). The Irish 
form, ae as it is, in localities exposed to the sea-breezes, is, I 
believe, the forma Erike of Asch. & Graebn. Fl. N. O. Deutsch. 
Flacht. p. 547 (1899), with broad flat leaves furrowed on both sides. 
The comparison of these British forms with specimens of local (?) 
continental aaa ore of well-known ssesion is always an interesting 
iece of investi 
_ The author epic carefully weighed the arguments for and 
against, has rightly relegated to an appendix the list of excluded 
species, a aliens, te. tis much better to separate from the 
ora, for ready ORC ANTN such a miscellaneous list. 
As he s are ‘Tt concentrates attention on the points where it is 
most needed ; it suggests the direction in which the growth of the 
flora may be looked fo 
upplement, also in concise form, gives the popular plant- 
names current in the county—the result of personal pig 20% from 
house-to-house visits among the peasantry. Such an e — + 
applied to Prunella vulgaris, ‘* given me y 
woman at Gollierstown on the Grand Canal.’’ It is Saintakind 
an original work. The present writer, with the object even 
ferreting out some little flaw, has hunted here and there for mis- 
prints and typographical errors, with a signal lack of aioe ce) 
carefully has the revising of proofs and the printing of the book 
been carried out. An unsympathetic Londoner would, however, 
fail to appreciate the value of interpolating in the index the Gaelic 
names of plants printed in Irish character, unless he were a student 
of native dialects 
f the fruticose Rubi, sippeinonae of the ninety-seven segregates 
listed as British have been recorded in Dublin county: probably 
others may be added with further investigation. In tr OE 
the Dublin plants of H. umbeliatum are to be referred to 
coronopifolium, well marked by its a toothed Tones bel 
so far not recorded for any ane Irish county. H. silvatiewm var. 
aealalie is recorded as having been tentind on railway-banks near 
Liffey Junction in 1903, but has nevertheless the appearance of an 
