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portion of their food ; in different species the serratures vary 

 in their development, being in some irregularly broken, while 

 in others they are regularly serrated. In Crypticus they are 

 very minute, and with the dilated form of the bill may be 

 adapted for seeking a peculiar kind of food. 



XXXVI. — On the recent Additions to the Flora of Ireland. 

 By Charles C. Babington, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., &c. 



Believing that a catalogue of the additions to the Flora of 

 Ireland, made since the publication of Mr. Mackay^s work, 

 would be an interesting Supplement to the paper by Dr. 

 Hincks, on ( The Early Contributions to the Flora of Ire- 

 land,' contained in recent Numbers of the Annals, I have, as 

 far as lies in my power, collected together the scattered no- 

 tices of newly-discovered plants, natives of that country, and 

 now present them in a connected form. 



1. Cerastium atrovirens. Common on the sea-coasts, C. C. B. 



2. Elatine Hydropiper. Near Newry, Mr. Thompson, of Belfast ; 



and at the Lagan Canal, where it enters Lough Neagh, Mr. 

 D. Moore, Hook. Br. Fl. 166. 



3. Rubus carpinifolius. At Ma'am in Cunnamara, Galway, in Aug. 



1835, C. C. B., Mag. of Nat. Hist. ix. 129. 



4. R. Kcehleri jo. fusco-ater. At the same place and time as the 



last, C. C. B. 



5. Callitriche pedunculata a. vera. The Mullet, Mayo, July, 1836, 



C. C. B., Mag. of Zool. and Bot. ii. 124. 



6. C. pedunculata /3. sessilis. Newport, Mayo, Aug. 1840, C. C. B. 



7. C. platycarpa. Newport and Achil Isle, Mayo; and near Sligo, 



Aug. 1840, C. C. B. 



8. Fedia auricula. Oughterard, Galway, Aug. 1835, C. C. B., Mag. 



Nat. Hist. ix. 129. 



9. Anthemis maritima. Bear Haven in S.W. of Ireland, Hooker, Br. 



Fl. 308. 



10. Leontodon (Apargia) alpinus (Jacq.). Mr. J. Ball found a single 

 specimen which appeared to agree with the description of this 

 plant better than with that of any other species on the moun- 

 tains south of Glen Cree, in Wicklow, in 1837, Annals of Nat. 

 Hist. ii. 29. 



1 1 . Erica vagans. Islet on the coast of Waterford, near Tramore, 

 Dr. Burkett, Hook. Br. Fl. 159. 



12. Cuscuta epilinum. Near Newport, Mayo, Aug. 1840, C. C. B. 



