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of Ireland. Considering the extent of coast-line and the mild- 
ness of the Donegal climate, it is remarkable that this type is 
here at its weakest in Ireland. I expect, however, that 
exploration in the west and south-west of the county will strengthen 
the list. Most of the “Atlantic” plants which reach Scotland 
occur throughout Ireland, Sinapis monensis alone being entirely 
absent. Of those in Scotland some are oe Pleat 5 several get no 
further north than the Clyde Estuary (District XII. of Watson’s 
‘ Cybele Britannica’), while two have a further range to Dumbarton 
and its proximity (District XVI., pain These two are Carum 
verticillatum d Bartsia ee and all these more northern 
‘“ Atlantic” plants in Scotland, excepting Bartsia, have also been 
found in the extreme north of Ireland. e range of Carum 
affords a strictly parallel case. It is commonly found associated 
with Bartsia in Kerry and Cork, the latter being the more abundant 
abe though not previously found elsewhere in Ireland. On the 
western side of Great Britain, from Cornwall and ~ ‘Devon to 
Dumbarton, to which they are sbristly 0 confined, their range is local 
and similar. But Carwm is found in the north of Ireland, about 
agai elfast, b ) else in Ireland. at 
occurrence of Bartsia might have been reasonably predicted in the 
north or north-east of Ireland; and, having been found, the 
parallelism is complete. 
(To be continued). 
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RaNUNCULUS oPHIOGLOssIFoLIvs In Enoianp.—In the summer of 
1878 I collected near Hythe, South Hants, a —* of what, at 
a glance, I took to be a very broad-leaved form . Flammula, 
and, in consequence of the large number of vies plants then 
gatiieced, it was dried ae sorted away, as such, without further 
examination. A short o Icame across the specimen, an 
then found it to be R. ome glossifolius. It differs, however, from 
the continental plant by its less strongly tubercled carpels. The 
distribution of this species, as given in Nyman’s ‘ Conspectus,’ 
shows it to be a likely plant to occur in Britain, as it reaches north 
to Gotland, and is found throughout France ee the Channel 
Islands) ; it also extends over the greater part of Southern Europe. 
The out-of-the-way place in which the plant grows in Hampshire 
makes it improbable that it was introduced, although it did not 
occur in great quantity, and was only noticed over a ee area. 
Of course the occurrence of a plant in Jersey gives it no claim to 
be considered ‘‘ British’’; and I think it is to 1 ae that our 
Flora should be pttificially a enlarged by the addition of species only 
occurring in what is geographically and botanically a part of France. 
