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The Irish Naturalist 



February, 



flora adds 5 species to that division. Mr. O'Brien supplies 9 

 new plants for Clare and Limerick. M}^ own exploration of 

 Achill Island and of the Fermanagh highlands contributes 12 

 species to West Mayo and 18 to Fermanagh respectively. 

 Every new record published during the year has made its 

 appearance in this Journal, a fact that much simplifies refer- 

 ences in the following pages. 



For specimens and notes supplied, I have to offer my best 

 thanks to W. A. Barnes, Miss Beauchamp, Rev, S. A. Brenan, 

 N. Carrothers, N. Colgan, Miss Evelyn Cradock, Mrs. Crichton, 

 Rev. W. W. Flemyng, Mrs. Gibbon, Cuthbert Harrison, Miss 

 Annette Hemphill, Mrs. Frank Joyce, W. F. de V. Kane, Miss 

 Knowles, Mrs. Leebody, H. C. Marshall, Rev. R. M. Miller, 

 S. A. Moore, R. A. Phillips, Wm. Porter, A. vSomerville, S. A. 

 Stewart, Rev. C. H. Waddell, W. West. 



The records of the year include three plants — all Rubi — new 

 to Ireland : namely R. podophyllus and R. serpens from Kerry, 

 and R. longithyrsiger (var. botryeros) from Fermanagh. Four 

 more of Dr. Scully's Kerry Brambles {R. cariensis, R. anglo- 

 saxonicus, R. regillus, and R. Babingtonii), and three of his 

 Hawkweeds {H. argent eum^ H. orimeles, and H. spafsifolium), 

 are new to the South of Ireland. Mr. Pugsley's examination 

 of Irish Fumitories adds Wicklow, Louth, Tyrone and Antrim 

 to the range of Fumaria purpurea, which is apparently fre- 

 quent in Ireland. By my own work in the west, Rubus cari- 

 ensis and R. dtmensis are extended across Ireland, Epilobium 

 angustifolium is pushed southward into Mayo, and Euphrasia 

 Salisburgensis northward into Fermanagh. Also, Ra7iunculus 

 scoticus is shown to be common in Achill and on the Fermanagh 

 hills, Pyrola secunda to be locally abundant in Fermanagh, 

 and Glyceria festuccsforinis to extend widel}'' along the shores 

 of Co. Down. Of isolated records, the finding of Hypopithys 

 rmiltiflora in Fermanagh, Sisyriyichiuni aligns tifoliu7n in Sligo, 

 and Typha a7igustiJolia in Clare are especiall) deserving of 

 mention. 



A desirable split in a set of existing records comprises the 

 admission of Matricaria occidentalism Greene, to sub-specific 

 rank under M. discoidea, DC. This involves a revision of 

 the records of M. discoidea in Ireland. As a result, although 

 all the stations given in " Irish Top. Bot." cannot at once be 



