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of original culture, in a favourable fitua- 
tion. 
In that of The County of Waterford^'\ 
many very common plants, and a confider-. 
able number of the oiarine fbecies. There 
occurs alfo a cafe, confirming the poifonous 
quality of the Hemlock Dropwort, 
In that of'* The County of Cork,"' 1750, 
2 vols. 8% feveral of the Alphie, and other 
rare plants, occur ; flich are the Dryas oc^ 
topetala, Sedmn dafyphyllumy Euphorbia hy- 
bema: but what v/ill the critical botanift 
fay, when he fees in this lift the Androfce^ 
mi77i Afcyron ! 
Ireland may with reafon be proud to 
enumerate, among its choice produd:ions of 
Flora ^ the Arbutus of Killarney-y neverthe« 
lefs, its right as an aboriginal, is with 
great probability of truth contefted by Mr. 
Smith, in his Hiftory of the County of 
Kerry 1756, 8° in which he confiders 
it as haying been introduced by the Monks 
of St. Finniany who founded the abbey in 
the fixth century. 
I cpnclude m^y remarks on /ri/^ botany 
^ith obferving, that the varied clime, the 
different 
