February, 1905. 



The Irish Vaturalht. 



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ADDITIONS TO IRISH TOPOGRAPHICAL BOTANY" 



IN 1904. 



BY R. 1,1.0 YD PRAKGKR. 

 [Read before the Dublin Naturalists' Field Club, 22nd November, 1904.] 



During the year now closed considerable advance has again 

 been made in the working-out of the distribution of Irish 

 plants. For the first time since I began this annual summary, 

 a decrease in the number of new county records has to be 

 chronicled — 128 in 1904, against 219 in 1903, and 207 in 1902. 

 In point of interest, however, the 1903 records can vie with 

 those of previous years. The most important botanical event 

 of the year is the publication of Mr. Colgan's Flora of the 

 County Dubliyi, which greatly advances our knowledge not 

 only of the distribution of species in the metropolitan county, 

 but of Irish critical systematic botan}^ The chief papers of 

 the year on the results of field work refer to the flora of 

 Kerry\ Dublin^, West Mayo^, Sligo^ and Fermanagh^ The 

 publication by Miss Knowles of the results of Mr. Pugsley's 

 revision of the Fumitories in the Herbarium of the National 

 Museum^, is also an important item in the year's work. Of 

 unpublished material, there is a considerably less amount 

 than in the two previous years. The chief contributors of the 

 new records are pretty much the same as last year : — Dr. 

 Scully's additions for North and South Kerry total no less than 

 31 plants, of which 21 are Brambles \ the results of the Field 

 Club Union incursion into Sligo is to add 1 1 species to the 

 flora of that county ; Mr. Colgan's finishing touch to the Dublin 



^ Scully : Notes on the Kerry flora, 1903. LN,, xiii., 77-80 ; and Some 

 Kerry Rubi. Ibid,, 128-130. 



Colgan : Further additions to the flora of County Dublin, . . . Ibid , 

 56-61. 



3 Praeger : The Flora of Achill Island. Ibid., 265-289. 



* Praeger : Phanerogamia and Pteridophyta [of Sligo I.F.C.U. Excur- 

 sion]. Ibid., 204-207. 



» Praeger : Among the Fermanagh Hills. Ibid., 232-241. 



6 Knowles : A I^ist of the Irish Fumatories in the Herbarium of the 

 National Museum, Dublin. Ibid,, 33-36. 



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