The Flora of Ireland. 207 



line to Belfast, and inland at Bellaghy, county Deny, is met 

 with on the light sandy soils of the county Down, in the imme- 

 diate vicinity of Belfast, but extends as far south as New- 

 tonards. 



The incongruity of including Down in District 12 is 

 manifest ; it should — at the very least, its southern half — form 

 part of District 5 ; or, with a portion of Antrim, and with 

 Armagh and Louth, constitute an additional district. 



It appears objectionable to sepai^ate the S.W. shore of 

 Lough Neagh from District 12 ; the basin of the lough, and 

 the area drained by the Lower Bann constitute a natural dis- 

 trict j and if it be impracticable to unattach it, the whole of it 

 should certainly form part of District 12. By this arrange- 

 ment, such a restricted plant as Galamagrostis striata would 

 belong to one district, as it naturally does, and not to two, 

 as now. 



The Cybele Hibemica is remarkably deficient in generaliza- 

 tions ; there is no comparison with neighbouring floras, and 

 no allusion is even made to the late Prof. Forbes's Origin of the 

 Flora of Ireland. This certainly is a disappointment, inasmuch 

 as doubt had been raised as to the correctness of Forbes's 

 premises, whereon he established that masterly essay on the 

 sources whence the flora of Ireland, as well as of Great Britain, 

 was derived; and it is not unreasonable to suppose, consider- 

 ing the care the editors of the Cybele have bestowed on the 

 thorough investigation of the plants that have come under 

 their notice, that they are in a position to test the soundness 

 of Prof. Forbes' s conclusions. 



Another edition will be required, if the workers, which 

 this publication will undoubtedly raise up, will respond to the 

 solicitations of the authors, who repeatedly direct the reader's 

 attention to the paucity of species in Districts 7 and 11. The 

 labours of the writer during a few weeks of the summer of this 

 year, have added Medicago sativa, Helminthia echioides, and 

 Myriophijlluvi alterniflorum to the list of District 12, and 

 have furnished new localities of species thought to be rare. 

 He offers the following few remarks by way of addenda and cor- 

 rigenda : — ■ 



Is Ranunculus pseudo-fluitans not merely a state of R. pel- 

 tatus ? The two grow in the Bann, at Coleraine ; the former 

 in the rapids, and therefore without floating leaves ; the latter 

 in still water, where floating leaves are developed. 



It is stated that "the two sub-species, Fumaria pallidiflora 

 and_F. confusa have not been sufficiently distinguished, but ap- 

 pear to be about equally distributed." The latter is generally 

 distributed in Antrim and Deny, but always on light soils ; 

 the latter is rare, and has occurred to me at the Curran of 



