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he is associated in this undertaking, had procured good lists of the 

 plants which grow in most of the seaboard counties, but could obtain 

 very little assistance from persons in the midland counties, which in many 

 instances would have to be left blank in the first edition, consequent on 

 the small amount of valuable information they had got. In this respect 

 he therefore considered the contribution of Mr. Foot valuable ; it being 

 from such observers as he, who are in the country during the whole 

 year, we are likely to get faithful lists of the plants which inhabit dif- 

 ferent localities, and not so much from those who make merely annual 

 excursions to the more interesting portions of the country, which for 

 the most part are pretty well known already. As an instance of this, 

 he might state that during the present year a very important addition 

 to the Flora of Ireland, and also of .Britain, had been made by a young 

 lady residing in the county of Galway. He alluded to Neotinea intacta, 

 a pretty orchidaceous plant, which was discovered at Castle Taylor 

 during the first week in May. Had the lady not been on the spot at 

 that early period, the plant would have still remained unknown to us 

 as an inhabitant of the British Isles, as it speedily disappears after 

 flowering, and not a vestige of it is to be seen in June or July, when 

 botanists generally think of making excursions. It might not be inap- 

 propriate to mention another interesting addition which had been 

 made to the Irish and British Floras during the present year by himself. 

 When at Brandon, in the county of Kerry, collecting mosses and Hepa- 

 ticae to send to German correspondents, he visited a large lake near 

 Castlegregory, which seemed inviting to the botanist from its position 

 in Tralee Ba3 r . In it he discovered for the first time Potamogeton nitens, 

 a plant long known to inhabit the Continent of Europe, though pre- 

 viously unknown to the British Isles. These facts were encouraging to 

 the young botanists who are members of the Natural History Society of 

 Dublin, showing as they do that the careful observer has yet something 

 to expect for his trouble. Besides, our young friends have it in their 

 power to add many important data connected with the geographical 

 distribution as to our plants in this country, which is so peculiarly cir- 

 cumstanced that the extreme outliers of the South American Flora 

 reach the south-western counties, and there meet the outliers of the 

 Flora of the Pyrenees and other Continental countries. In concluding 

 these remarks, he would only further observe that he considered the 

 thanks of the Society due to Mr. Foot for the communication just read. 



Mr. Archer then drew the attention of the meeting more particu- 

 larly to tbe forthcoming work alluded to by Dr. Moore, and distributed 

 copies of the prospectus amongst the members present. The first edi- 

 tion of the book is to be entitled " Contributions towards a Cybele Hi- 

 hernica" and is being prepared under the authorship of Dr. D. Moore, 

 F. L. S., and of Mr. A. G. More, F. L. S., who have undertaken the 

 task free of all expense ; and, as is implied by the title, it is intended 

 to be a catalogue of Irish plants with regard to their geographical dis- 



