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that was omitted in error from its proper place in the book. 

 " Euphorbia Peplis, L., Garraris Cove, near Tramore, VVaterford 

 (Miss Trench): Mackay, 1859— and spec, in Herb. Mackay in 

 Trinity Coll., Dublin. First found by Miss Trench in 1839, but 

 not since seen, though sought for by R. M. Barrington in 1870 

 and 187 1, and by H. C. Hart in 1882, no doubt extinct." I may 

 add that the Rev. C. H. Waddell searched for this plant with me 

 in 1902, but we did not find it. The locality is two miles south 

 of Tramore, and the disappearance of the plant may be accounted 

 for by the removal every year of large quantities of the beautiful 

 gravel forming the beach and headlands at the spot. This lady, 

 Helena Trench, born in Dublin 1820, died at Killiney 1908, and 

 buried at Loughbrickland, was a daughter of the Rev. F. S. and 

 Lady Helena Trench. She married Jeffry Lefroy, Vicar of 

 Aghaderg and subsequently Dean of Dromore. In early life she 

 was an enthusiastic botanist and student of Irish and Continental 

 plants, the taste for which she had inherited from her mother. 

 Her large and well preserved herbarium was given by her in 

 1885, on the death of her husband when the family left the North 

 of Ireland, to the Banbridge Young Men's Christian Association. 



George Crawford Hyndman, born in Belfast 1796, died at 

 Belfast 1867, was a botanist as well as a conchologist. On his 

 death a large collection of his shells was purchased for the town 

 of Lurgan, where it still exists in the Town Hall. He had an 

 excellent herbarium which passed to his nephew Mr. Hugh 

 Hyndman, LL.D., and he was well acquainted with the plants of 

 Ulster. 



William Thompson, born at Belfast, 2nd November, 1805, 

 died in London, 17th February, 1852, author of the "Natural 

 History of Ireland," gave attention not only to the Vertebrate 

 and Invertebrate animals (except Insecta and Infusoria), but also 

 to the Vegetable Kingdom in all its various forms; he was truly a 

 many-sided naturalist, and may fairly be claimed as a botanist. 

 Some departments of cryptogamic botany gave exercise to his 



