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Islands, Kamchatka, the whole of Siberia to Western Russia 

 (Esthonia, Livonia, Courland), Oland, the north of England, 

 Ireland, and the Pyrenees (?). Roughly speaking, A. Stelleriana 

 occupies the same area, though its range is much more interrupted. 

 The nearest relatives of the latter species also grow in Eastern 

 Siberia and Kamchatka. It is a remarkable circumstance that 

 A. maritima L., which belongs to the Atlantic flora, and which is 



entirely wanting on that portion of the coast where A. Stellerimia 

 grows. It would undeniably be of interest to ascertain how far 

 this applies to the other European stations of the latter species. 

 Should the observation hold good there as well, it might be possible 

 that A. maritima, a later immigrant, has gradually supplanted 

 A. Stelleriana in the localities more congenial to the former. 



Unless some new facts be brought to light, rendering the 

 diffusion of this species from gardens more probable than is now 

 the case, A. Stelleriana should thus be regarded as native to Europe. 



SOME IRISH RUBI. 

 By R. Lloyd Praeger, B.A., M.R.I.A. 



Our Irish brambles, and their distribution, are almost unknown. 

 The list of Rubi in Cybele Hibernica is a mere skeleton, and consists 

 almost solely of the plants collected by Prof. Babington and Dr. 

 Moore. The new edition will no doubt furnish a much more 

 complete account of the distribution of the group in Ireland, but 

 its publication, long delayed, is still in the future. At the present 

 time, the only lists which we have, which can be considered to give 

 anything like a fairly complete enumeration of the Rubi of the 

 localities to which they refer, are those of Stewart and Corry's 

 Flora of the Xorth-caxt < : f Ireland, one or two of Mr. Stewart's 

 reports to the Royal Irish Academy on the floras of some scattered 

 districts in Ireland, and the writer's " Flora of Armagh," published 

 in the Irish Naturalist for the past year. 



The subjoined list is the result of a few days' Rubus-hunting 

 past season within a forty-mile radius of Dublin, in the 

 counties of Dublin, Meath, Wicklow, Kildare, Queen's County, and 

 King's County. Of these, the first two belong to District 5 of 

 Cybele Uibernira, the third to District 4, the fourth and fifth to 

 District 3, and the sixth to District 7. From none of the counties 

 mentioned has more than an odd bramble been hitherto recorded — 

 fa-dozen from Wicklow, and two or three from Dublin 

 and Meath, appear indeed to be the sum total. While the present 

 list cannot be taken as more than a first contribution to a know- 

 ledge of the Rubi of these districts, it will at least help towards the 

 filling up a conspicuous gap in Irish botany. The determinations 

 have all been made by the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers, to whom my 

 very best thanks are due ; and the arrangement of species is that 



