XOTICES TO MEMBERS 
Irish I’eant Rk< ores and Recorders 
The Council is anxious to make the registration of new or interest- 
ing Irish records more systematic than it has been in the past, and at 
the same time to co-ordinate the work of this Society with the recording 
done b 5 " Irish botanists in Irish journals. It has been arranged, there- 
fore, that Professor D. A. Webb will provisionally act as Recorder for 
the whole of Ireland, but that he will endeavour to “farm out” certain 
groups of counties to members who are willing to take charge of them, 
while retaining responsibility him.self for general co-ordination. It has 
been the practice for many years for new Irish records to be published 
in the Irhli Natuvdlhts' Jovnial in the first instance, with occasional 
summings-up in the Proceedings of the Boyal Irish Academy. This is 
to be continued, and Professor Webb will forward all records published 
in these journals, or which reach him privately, to the editor ol 
Watsonia. 
Members who visit Ireland are asked, in return, to record as fully 
as possible the distribution of all ])lants which are not ubiquitous in the 
area in question (and here it may be recalled that in S.W. Ireland even 
Anthriscus sylvestris becomes extremely rare!), and to pass on these 
notes to Professor Webb, who will prepare for publication in Watsonia 
such of them as represent an extension of range or a filling of gaps. 
It should be remembered that our knowledge of the distribution of 
plants in Ireland, though it has been, thanks to Dr. Praeger, extremely 
well codified, rests on a very slender basis. Only seven of the thirty- 
two counties have county floras, and for many of the widely distributed 
hut not really common plants, say Pidens tripartita or Epipactis ptdvs- 
tris, there is no information beyond the entries, averaging less than 
two per county, in Irish Topographical Botany. 
It is obvious that if our knowledge of the distribution patterns of 
plants in the British Isles is ever to approach in completeness that 
which now exists for Holland or Scandinavia a large number of records 
for the less-known Irish counties must first be accumulated. 
Pl.ant Notes 
Notes should be sent to the Editor. Contributors are requested to 
keep to the form adopted in Watsonia. The Note should start with the 
B.P.Tj. number and name of the genus or species concerned. If the 
Note concerns one vice-county only, start with this information, as is 
done with Plant Records. The name of the author of the Note is printed 
at the end in .small capitals. 
Abstracts 
Offers of assistance both from members willing to prepare abstracts, 
and from those willing to translate short summaries of papers written 
in the various European languages, would be much appreciated. They 
may be made either to the Editor of Watsonia or to Mr. D. H. Kent, 
75 Adelaide Road, West Ealing, London, W.13. It would be a great 
