I905- 



Grierson, — Mollusca of N.E. Wicklow, 



II 



p. fontlnale, Pfr. — Common. Taken near Sugar-loaf Mountain, 

 Hollybrook and Powerscourt Lakes, and in Ordnance Sheet 130, 

 near Devil's Glen. 



P. milium, Held. — Found in Hollybrook and Powerscourt Lakes, and 

 in Deerpark Lake, Powerscourt, and in Ordnance Sheet 130, near 

 Devil's Glen. 



P. puslllum, Gmel. — Very common. Hollybrook and Powerscourt 

 Lakes, near Sugar-loaf Mountain, by Bray road, Enniskerry, and 

 var. cinerea in the Deerpark Lake, Powerscourt. 



Clondalkin. 



THE DOUGLAS COLLECTION IN THE HERBARIUM 

 OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



BY MISS M. C. KNOWLES. 



This is a collection of plants from the County Kildare, which 

 was made by Mr. John Douglas, of Straffan, in the years 1864 

 and 1865, for the xVIarquis of Kildare, who presented it to the 

 Royal Dublin Society. From this Society it came into posses- 

 sion of the National Museum, and has now been incorporated 

 in the general Irish Herbarium. It consisted of mounted speci- 

 mens of 472 species, with dates and localities. Of these, 410 

 are flowering plants and ferns ; the remaining 62 being mosses, 

 liverworts, and lichens. The collection, with a list of the 

 plants in it, was originally contained in a large green leather 

 portfolio lettered on the outside — 



Collection of Dried Plants 

 From the County Kildare, 

 Presented to 

 The Royal DubHn Society 

 by 



The Most Noble the Marquis of Kildare. 

 Collected by Mr. John Douglas. 

 1864-1865. 



The authors of 'Cybele Hibernica' mention having received a 

 list of Kildare plants from Mr. Douglas when collecting 

 material for that book, and the collection contains specimens 

 of almost all those recorded in ' Cybele' under his name. One 

 of them, Carduus nutans, from Castle Dillon, Straffan, has not 



