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ADDITIONS TO "IRISH TOPOGRAPHICAI. BOTANY" 
IN 1905, 
BY R. 1,1,0 YD PRAEGKR. 
[Read before the Dublin Naturalists' Field Club, 12 December, 1905.] 
During the past year the additions to our knowledge of plant- 
distribution in Ireland have been well up to the standard both 
as regards quantity and quality, though no very startling 
announcement has to be chronicled. The total number of 
new county records to be recorded in this, my fifth annual 
supplement, is 254, a number considerably larger than that 
attained in any previous year. But it ought at once to be added 
that the amount of field work, as judged by its results from a 
statistical point of view, was less in 1905 than usual, and this 
total of additions to the county lists would have been con- 
siderably less but for brief raids made by myself into the 
imperfectly worked north-central region of Ireland, resulting 
in large lists of additions more remarkable for quantity than 
for quality. 
As regards published matter. In addition to my own con- 
tributions on the flora of Central Clare^, and of the Mullet 
district of West Mayo^, the chief papers published during the 
year recording the results of personal field work are those of 
Mr. Phillips, treating of the Brambles^ and of the flora in 
general^ of the Limerick district. Miss Knowles' examination 
of the Douglas collection in the National Herbarium^, has 
added a number of plants to the Kildare flora ; and the same 
• observer has published particulars of the discovery of Glyceria 
Foucaudi on the Shannon estuary''. The result of M. Pugsley's 
examination of large sets of Irish Fumitories has also appeared 
1 Notes on the Botany of Central Clare. I.N., xiv., 188-193. 1905. 
* The Flora of the Mullet and Inishkea, I.N., xiv., 229-244. 1905. 
® Some Irish Brambles. I.N., xiv., 5-7. 1905. 
* Some Notes on the Flora of lyimerick. /ounial Limerick Field Club, 
iii. 32-35. Plate. June, 1905. 
^ The Douglas Collection in the Herbarium of the National Museum. 
I.N., xiv., 11-14. 1905. 
® Atropis Foucaudi in Ireland. I.N.^ xiv,, 51-53. 1905. 
