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~ — » — .— ,. — In his valuable paper on 



the ' Mountain Flora of Ireland,'* my friend Mr. H. C. Hart gives 

 900 ft. in Donegal as the lowest elevation in Ireland for Vaccinium 

 Vitis-idaa, and this would place it altogether above the agrarian 

 zones, or limits of cultivation. It may be interesting, therefore, to 

 note that in the late Dr. Moore's herbarium at Glasnevin there are 

 some specimens of V. Vitis-idcea labelled as having been gathered 

 on the large bog near Bracklin, Co. Westmeath ; and my friend Mr. 

 H. O. Levinge has kindly undertaken to make fresh search in this 

 locality which I have little doubt may be accepted as correct, 

 especially as I have myself gathered another mountain plant, 

 Fmpetrum nigrum, on the neighbouring bog of Liselogder. Tem- 

 pleton, in his Catalogue of the Native Plants of Ireland, records a 

 variety of V. Vitis-idasa, with somewhat serrated and waved leaves, 

 as found by himself in 1794 on a bog in Crevetenant, near Ballina- 

 hinch, Co. Down ; and he gives also as a locality for the type, 

 "Bogs at the southern extremity of Lough Neagh " : but I do not 

 think that the plant has been gathered recently in either of these 

 localities. In drawing attention to these lowland stations, my hope 

 is that a renewed search on some of our large inland bogs may lead 

 to the discovery of V. Vitis-idaa at low elevation, especially as, in 

 England, it has occurred so far south as in Essex, at no great 

 height above the sea.— A. G. More. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



Royal Gardens, Kew. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information. London : 



printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Eyre and 

 bpottiswoode. Five vols. 1887-91. 



We 



little production, ' and the description is still not inappropriate. 

 During the five years of its existence it has gone through many 

 changes. It began « as an occasional publication," and this it 

 still remains, although the dates on its front page imply a monthly 

 issue ; it was to contain « notes too detailed for the Annual Report 

 on economic products and plants " ; but it has entirely superseded 

 the Annual Report," and its contents are by no means limited in 

 accordance with the above definition. Judging, indeed, from the 

 last few numbers, the present aim of the Stationery Office is to 

 provide the public, at Government expense, with a scientific journal 

 at ™ C °?J ? f twopence per number. Since Mr. C. B.' Clarke 

 published at Calcutta his Flora of Andover, containing 114 pp. and 

 a map for threepence, it may be doubted whether so cheap a 

 publication has been presented to the public. 



Among the peculiarities of the Kew Bulletin—* title which is 

 not only convenient, but is sanctioned by being placed on the back 



• Royal Irish Academy, Proceedings, 3rd Series, vol. i. p. 533. 



