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The Irish Naturalist, 



THE DISTRIBUTION OF FUMlTORlEvS IN IRELAND. 



BY R. I^LOYD PRAKGER. 



Mr. H. W. PugsIvEy's revision of the British Capreolate 

 Fumitories in 1903s showed that much confusion had arisen 

 in the naming of these plants in the British Islands. An 

 examination which Mr. Pugsley kindly made of the Fumi- 

 tories in my own herbarium in the same year proved that the 

 distribution of the various forms as given in " Irish Topo- 

 graphical Botany " was not to be relied upon. I published^ in 

 the Jrish Naturalist both the additions and subtractions which 

 this examination entailed. Mr. Pugsley's subsequent re- 

 naming of the series preserved in the National Herbarium 

 reduced the previously existing Irish list to a state of chaos. 

 Miss Knowles has published in this Journal^ the positive 

 results of this revision, and has left to me the equally 

 important task of publishing the negative results — i.e., the 

 withdrawal of published records now known to be erroneous. 

 Since it was clear that the Irish list must be built up again 

 from its foundation, I issued a circular in June of last year 

 asking for dried specimens of Irish Fumitories, which Mr. 

 Pugsley had kindly undertaken to examine. This appeal met 

 with a satisfactory response ; but unfortunately several 

 correspondents insisted on sending up "fresh" specimens, 

 which generally arrived in a condition so far from fresh as to 

 be totally useless. Mr. Pugsley has now examined the series 

 which I succeeded in getting together. For contributing to 

 this series or for supplying information I offer my best thanks 

 to J. Adams, M.A., J. T.Abraham, W. A. Barnes, Captain 

 Barrett-Hamilton,^ B.A., F.Z.S., Rev. S. A. Brenan, B.A., 

 N. Golgan, M.R.I. A., N. Carrothers, J. H. Davies, Miss M. J. 

 Delap, G. J. Fogerty, P. H. Grierson, Miss S. Grubb, Rev. 

 Canon Hartley, M.A., Mrs. Frank Joyce, Mrs. Leebody, C. J. 

 Lilly, D.I., T. A. P. Mapother, D.L., Rev. E. S. Marshall, 

 M.A., F.L.S., R. D. O'Brien, Miss Charlotte O'Brien, R. A. 

 Phillips, Miss Reynell, Miss Rosa Smith, A. Somerville, 

 B.Sc, S. A. Stewart, A.L-S., W. N- Tetley, W.J. C Tomlinson, 

 Rev. C. H. Waddell, B.D. 



^ Journ. Bol., xl., pp. 129-136, 173-181, tab. 436. 

 2 Irish Nat., xiii., pp. 4, ii. 1904. ^ Irish Nat., xiii., pp. 33-36. 1904. 



