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Templeton, Wade, Drutnmond, Mackay, &c., and in our own day by 
other resident as well as travelling botanists, it cannot be expected 
that many flowering plants remain to be added to the Flora. It is 
rather in the regular and systematic survey of the country, in the more 
exact and critical discrimination of species, and in the study of the 
introduced plants that advance may be looked for. That the last few 
years have not been altogether barren of results will be evident when 
we come to recapitulate the various addenda. 
For the long list of new plants and new localities which I now 
have the pleasure to lay before the Academy, we are in great measure 
indebted to the diligence and kindness of the numerous friends who 
have continued to entrust us with the result of their observations; and 
we are glad to think that among them are some whose attention and 
interest were perhaps first awakened, or at least directed to a profitable 
end, by the use of our Cybele Hibernica. 
Foremost among those to whom we are thus indebted are : — 
Mr. R. Clayton Browne, jun., of Browne's Hill, who has contributed 
a number of localities from the County of Carlo w, etc., and has thus 
filled up many of the desiderata in district iii. He is also the first 
botanist who has noticed Crepis setosa in Ireland. 
The Rev. T. Allin, of Avoncore, has devoted much time and atten- 
tion to the plants of Cork, and even in that well examined district has 
discovered many new localities, and some plants previously unknown 
in the county. Among them, Rimex maritimus and Mentha sylvestris 
deserve especial mention. 
Mr. S. A. Stewart, of Belfast, has continued his diligent and careful 
observations, and besides numerous new stations, has found Valeria- 
nella carinata and Acorus Calamus in the J^'orth of Ireland : and Scle- 
rochloa procumhens (one of the rarest Irish plants) in the very town of 
Belfast. 
Mr. H. C. Hart has sent us some valuable notes of his many botani- 
cal rambles in Donegal, and he has also placed at our service a very 
full catalogue of the plants of the Southern Isles of Aran, the most 
complete that we have seen. He has also found Brassica adpressa for 
the first time in Ireland, and rediscovered Alyssum calycinum at Port- 
marnock. 
Mr. J. Morrison, of Spring-hill, Enniscorthy, has kindly allowed us 
to examine his Herbarium, in which we have found, together with 
many other interesting plants, Irish specimens of Oxalis stricta. Geranium 
nodosum, Erythrcea pulchella, and Cochlearia anglica. 
Mr. R. M. Harrington, of Fassaroe, has supplied many localities 
from Wicklow and Waterford, and we are indebted to him for ascer- 
taining that Cuscuta trifolii is permanently established as a colonist in 
the clover fields about Fassaroe. 
Mr. Dowd, of the College Botanic Garden, has largely contributed 
towards filling up the list of district vii., and has found, for the first 
time in Ireland, Malva lorealis, Berteroa incana and Centaurea panicii' 
lata. He also, with Professor E. P. Wright, has been the first to 
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