FLORA OF THE NORTH-EAST OF IRELAND. 283 



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Hants Plants. — A few days' visit of the Toynbee Natural 

 History Society to the New Forest and the adjoining coast in 

 August was productive of the following finds : — Isnardia palustris, 

 Spiranthes (Bstivalis (in a new locality), Ranunculus tripartitus (with 

 capillary leaves), Car ex Jiliformis, Drosera anglica, Eriophorum gracile. 

 On the shore near Christchurch, S air pus parvulus, Lotus hispidus, 

 and Elymus arenarius. The last, first discovered in Hants by the Rev. 

 W. Moyle Rogers near Bournemouth (see Journ. Bot. 1886, 284, 

 where "Wilts" is misprinted for " Hants" ), has thus its county 

 range considerably extended. Owing to the submersion of part of 

 the sand here, Diotis maritima and Polygonum maritimum are pro- 

 bably extinct in this locality. — Bolton King. 



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the Cryptogamia, Vascularia, and the Miiscinea. By Samuel 

 Alexander Stewart, and the late Thomas Hughes Corry. 

 Published by the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club. Cambridge : 

 Macmillan & Bowes. 8vo, pp. xxxiii. 331. 



We are very glad to receive this valuable addition to our know- 

 ledge of the botany of our sister island. Many of us have of late 

 years found our knowledge of Ireland and Irish affairs considerably 

 enlarged and extended ; and it is gratifying to find that the more 

 peaceable pursuits of science are not neglected, in spite of the more 

 exciting allurements of national struggle and political debate. For 

 many years the Belfast Naturalists' Club has pursued its labours in 

 the investigation of the botany of the counties of Antrim, Down, 

 and Derry ; chief among the labourers being Mr. S. A. Stewart, 

 who, in the present volume, brings together the results of many 

 years' diligent work; and Mr. T. H. Corry, whose premature death 

 inflicted a loss upon general as well as local botany. We have, 

 then, now presented to us in an attractively-printed book, which is 

 not too large for the pocket— a rare qualification in works of the 

 kind — what may be accepted as a full and trustworthy account of 

 the native vegetation of the counties' referred to. 



From the interesting introduction (which contains biographical 

 ketches of Tetnpleton, Threlkeld, Corry, David Moore, and others), 

 we learn that the Flora, as here recorded, contains 1169 species— 

 flowering plants and higher cryptogams, 803; mosses, 298; 

 hepatics, 73. This excludes 271 species which have been 

 erroneously recorded or require confirmation. Of the two plants 

 l< culiar to the district, one, Oar** Buxbaumii, is said to be on the 

 v *rge of extinction. When last noticed by Mr. Stewart in 1886, 

 011 the small island in Lough Neagh, which is its only locality in 

 the Unite! Kingdom, only " one little patch of about two feet 

 square was seen, on which there were a number of stems, some 

 immature, some trampled down, or eaten by cattle, and a few 



