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 WESTMEATH PLANTS. 119 the catastrophe which overtook Zeyher's collection in Hamburg. Some day, perhaps, it may be removed to a new and truly public museum, into which students will be encouraged and tempted to enter by the very aspect of the building itself.

WESTMEATH PLANTS. By E. F. and W. R. Linton. The plants here enumerated are most of them records for District VII. of the Cybele Hibernica (these have an asterisk pre- fixed), and were observed by us while enjoying the hospitality of Mr. H. C. Levinge at Knock Drin Castle last July. Some of them were detected by the Rev. E. S. Marshall, our fellow-guest for part of the time, and some were pointed out to us by Mr. Levinge himself, whose investigations have done so much to throw light on the Flora of Westmeath. A rainy season had set in, and hindered work during part of our visit; but, thanks to the long preceding drought, many wet localities were unusually accessible, and all the loughs had sunk below their normal level. Caltha palustris L. var. "^yrocumbens Beck. Fide Mr. Ar. Ben- nett, who writes, *' 1 should name this C. palustris L. y. procumbens (Huth) Beck. MS. in Huth's Mon. Gatt. Caltha, 18 (1891) = C. palustris var. radicans Fries (non Forster)." Shores of Brittas Lake, Knock Drin ; with much variation of the shape and serration of the leaf. Some of the plants of Caltha rooted more or less freely at the nodes, and to these the above note applies. A greater number showed no sign of rooting at the nodes. — Aquilegia vulgaris L. Apparently indigenous by L. Deraveragh, under Knock Body. Papaver dubium L. var. "''Lecoqii (Lamotte). Near cultivated ground by L. Deraveragh. Vicia Cracca L. var. Hncana Thuill. By L. Owel. '■^Prunus insititia Huds. Roadside hedges near Knock Drin. — "■'P. Cerasus L. In the Knock Drin Woods ; fruiting. Pointed out to us by Mr. Levinge. Rubus Idceiis L. var. "^'asperrinius Lees. Knock Drin, growing sparingly with the type. — R. suberectus Anders. Wood near Quarry Bog, Knock Drin; and Crooked Wood, near L. Deraveragh. — jR. Jissus Lindl. we saw only where Mr. Levinge had previously detected it, at Drinmore. On the same ground grew a pink- flowered form of R. plicatus W. & N. This species also occurred at the Crooked Wood. — -^R. opacus Focke. Crooked Wood, in some quantity. — '"'it. carpinif alius W. & N. Crooked Wood. — R. in- curvatus Bab. Frequent in the neighbourhood of Knock Drin, where it was discovered for the first time in Ireland by Mr. Levinge two years previously ; also in the Crooked Wood ; very typical. — R, rhamnifolius (sp. collect.). Noticed at Knock Drin. — R. macro-
 * Viola silvestris Eeich. Knock Ross, by L. Deraveragh.