128 The Rev. Dr. Hincks on the Flora of Ireland, 



as the place has been visited by many botanists. Helleborus 

 fcetidus {Helleboraster maocimus, &c. of old writers) is men- 

 tioned by both Threlkeld and K'Eogh, the latter of whom 

 gives the Sliebh Baughta mountains, between the counties of 

 Clare and Galway, and Drumcallagher, county Limerick, 

 as habitats. It is marked as a doubtful native in Great 

 Britain. 



Mr. Mackay has 8 genera and 24 species of this order. 

 Of these the old botanists had 6 genera and 14 species ; Mr. 

 Templeton, 6 genera and 18 species. Those in which Mr. 

 Templeton was deficient, were Clematis vitalba and Helleborus 

 viridis, both questionable; Thalictrum alpinum, Ranunculus 

 hirsutus and parviflorus, and arvensis, which last he regarded 

 as doubtful. At the end I will give a comparative table of the 

 genera and species in each natural order. 



p. 17. Matthiola sinuata. Mr. Mackay gives one of the isles 

 of Arran as a habitat. Would it not have been well to have 

 added, that Smith says he found it at Beal Castle, near the 

 mouth of the Shannon, in nearly the same longitude, not 

 much to the south, and near the sea ? 



p. 22. Threlkeld inserts Nasturtium petrceum foliis bursa 

 pastoris, which is Teesdalia nudicaulis, Hooker, and not a rare 

 plant in England. It would be well to have some notice of 

 plants said to have been found, but wanting confirmation. 



p. 30. Subularia aquatica, "said to.have been found in Lough 

 Neagh by Sherard." This is language which seems to im- 

 ply a doubt of that eminent botanist having found it there. 

 Now we know that Sherard was in that neighbourhood, pro- 

 bably in 1696. Ray mentions it on his authority; so do 

 Threlkeld and Molyneux, the former of whom gives it the 

 name of juncifolia. Mr. Templeton found it in Lough Neagh 

 before 1794, as I find from letters to Dr. Martyn, Editor of 

 the Gardener's Dictionary, and to Mr. Dickson, of Covent 

 Garden; so that there can be no reasonable doubt of the 

 fact. I think I have heard that it has been seen in Sherard's 

 specimens, preserved at Oxford, but I do not recollect my 

 authority. 



p. 31. Viola hirta. My name is mentioned as authority for 

 this plant being found at Blarney. I have it in a marked cata- 

 logue as found by Mr. Drummond. I am obliged by the 

 notice of me, as kindly meant, but I wish it clearly under- 

 stood that I do not consider myself as a competent judge. 

 In the present instance there is no reason to doubt the plant 

 having been found. 



p. 38. Hypericum calycinum, though I think Mr. Mackay 

 right respecting this plant ; yet perhaps it should have been 



