244 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
CoToNEASTER MIcROPHYLLA. — It may be worth while recording 
that ion microphylla is well established in different parts of 
Glamorganshire as a wild plant. It occurs. in nearly all cases in 
a 
cottage walls, and as thrushes are aCeemel fond of the berries, 
it is most probable ‘that the seed has been deposited by them. The 
plant grows in a ee quarry at Cornelly, and in a similar 
situation at Caerphilly.—W. F. Evans. 
iss sipacet Macdonald sent a specimen of the plant for 
naming, which she had found at Cornelly, and we are indebted to 
her for Mr. Evans’s note.—Ep. Journ. Bor.] 
® Numperine or tHe Boranicat County-Drvistoys or Irena 
The. Kon Exchange Club is preparing a Catalogue of Hopation 
showing the distribution of these plants in the “county-divisions 
throughout a goers and . reland, po: the manner of the 
London Cata logue of British Mosses. A great practical difficulty has 
arisen in representing ‘the diveeibution’ in Irelin d. a — numbers 
used by Mr. Praeger in Irish Topographical Botany for the 
Irish county-divisions, then the same numbers will cae te different 
districts in England and Ireland, and confusion will be sure to result, 
: think the divisions as arranged by Mr. Praeger are admirable, but 
that it was a great mistake ‘he did not make his numbers to run 
consecutively with those of Great Britain. The tg his pes of 
some plan no confusion where county names begin with 
the same letter, and i ce takes no account of divisions where the 
county is large. e ideal plan would be a numeration of English 
oy I Irish soy aiion according to latitude, as was pointed out 
S$ paper on the ‘subject i in this Journal for 1896 
@. 57), but = supa it is too late in the day to do this. I can see 
0 practical way out of the cifienly but, while adopting the county- 
avasons of Irish Top. Bot., to re-number them, and, instead of 
naming them 1 to 40, to name them 118 to 158. It would be 
useful if a Catalogue were issued of British Flowering Plants with 
the county-divisions arranged like the London Catalogue of Mosses. 
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We owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Praeger for his labours on the 
distribution of Irish plants, which have done so much to advance 
the study ; in t I think he was ill advised in the numbers adopted, 
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