Contributions Towards a Cybele Hibernica: Being Outlines of the Geographical Distribution of Plants in Ireland |
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Page 73 - This is the plant still worn as shamrock on St. Patrick's Day, though Medicago lupulina is also sold in Dublin as the shamrock. Edward Lhwyd, the celebrated antiquary, writing in 1699 to Tancred Eobinson, says, after a recent visit to Ireland : ' Their shamrug is our common clover
Page x - Some further observations relating to the antiquities and natural history of Ireland.
Page 73 - is our common clover" (Phil. Trans., No. 335). Threlkeld, the earliest writer on the wild plants of Ireland, gives "Seamar-oge" (Young Trefoil) as the Gaelic name for " Trifolium pratense album," and says expressly that this is the plant worn by the people in their hats on St. Patrick's Day.
Page viii - ... each, 25 Coloured Plates, 15*. In this work a full page is devoted to the illustration of each Species, the drawings being made by the author from specimens collected by him on the spot, and they exhibit in vivid colours the beautiful aspect which many of our wild flowers assume south of the Alps. A FLORA OF ULSTER, AND BOTANISTS GUIDE TO THE NORTH OF IRELAND.
Page xx - Of the fifteen species there enumerated as characteristic of the west and south of Europe, which range, under an exceptional climate, to a higher northern latitude than on the Continent, four only reach as far north as Donegal, although at that time only one was believed to occur.
Page xxii - Isoetes lacustris, occur in many places at, or a little above the sea-level, so that they cannot be termed highland species in Ireland. It is probably in consequence of the vaporous atmosphere, and the less amount of sunlight, that these plants are found at a lower level than in Scotland.
Page 135 - Shady banks of Milewater river, a quarter of a mile above where the tide flows (Mr. Templeton). Naturalized among trees at the south-east border of the Belfast Botanic Garden ; Mr.
Page ii - Hanc variae gentea antique more sacrorum Idseam vocitant matrem, Phrygiasque catervas Dant comites, quia primum ex ollis finibus edunt Per terrarum orbes fruges coepisse creari.
Page 12 - sub-species," and placed under T. minus in his edition of English Botany. 3. T. flavum (Linn.) — Marsh Meadow-Eue. Districts -23456789 10 -12 Lat. 52°-56°. Throughout Ireland, but local. Type in Great Britain, English. River-sides and marshy places ; rather rare. Fl. June, July. Quite a local plant, though recorded from nearly all the districts.
Page 12 - Rocky and bushy places ; rare. — 6. On a hill south of Black Head, in Clare ; Mr. FJ Foot. On the shores of Lough Derg, near Portumna ; DM — 8. Near Headford, Galway Anemone.'] EANUNCULACE^E.