GREAT ABUNDANCE OF CREPIS TARAXACIFOLIA. 175 



Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin, has mentioned a 

 similar increase in this plant in County Wicklow, in his 

 Keport as Consulting Botanist to the Royal Dublin 

 Society for 1896. He also informs me that in the intro- 

 duction to Moore and More's "Cybele Hibernica," p. 25, 

 this plant is given in a list of the twenty-four scarcest 

 British plants occurring in Ireland. 



The influence of comparatively small and even temporary 

 variations of climate on plant and animal life and distri- 

 bution has not received the attention it deserves. It is 

 scarcely necessary to point out that there is a better 

 chance of the occurrence of a variety fitted to withstand 

 adverse climatic influences in a large number of indi- 

 viduals than in a small, so that, in the case before us, the 

 three favourable years may result in the plant becoming, 

 at all events comparatively, common. 



