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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
‘The Flowering Plants and Ferns of the County Soe with coloured 
4 Map and Introduction by the Rev. Taom gs ALLIN LIN. West 
super-mare: J. Marche. 1883 
Loca floras of Ireland are so few that a addition to their 
number is welcome. It is forty years since Dr. Power drew up his 
q Aging Guide to =e County Cork.’ Many Sec tae additions 
have been made sin e that time, especially songs the labours 
due. . Allin d 
we believe that his book offers a fairly complete list of the plants 
: ty. The number of 700 species is rather more than 
Docition and proximity to the Kuropean mopinant much more than 
to the climatal condition to which Mr. Allin has justly drawn 
attention. He has very judiciously cleared the list of a large number 
Dr doubtful natives, which had been too easily admitted b 
It is a ae of regret that no room has been found for the 
cryptogamic plants, ig aga or mosses and lichens, for which we 
believe the materials exist; it is remarkable that Mr. 
should have omitted the Peusubirne. In Ro Geka ae which com- 
prise some of the most interesting of the Cork s 
limi F in 
full; but we should have been glad of a reprint of Dr. Smith’s list, 
from his ‘ Ancient and Present State’ of the county dal pes 1770), 
with some indication of the confirmation or otherwise of ¢ 
numerous localities soe nig eae it. We may say the same of ihe 
ibuted by Ja a Drawaisad} in 1818-20, to the ‘ Munster 
agazine’; whi e if, as we suppose, the catalogues 
drawn up by Dr. Scott and od Re T. Alexander, and presented by 
cks. At the least, it seems that the present where 
of these — should have selee dleaily stated, for the benefit 
ture worker; 
Cetisidering he extent of the county, we should have thought a 
larger number of districts might have been made. Mr. Allin has 
only two, and these do not correspond with those in ‘ Cybele 
