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THE great botanical interest of the flora of A Ireland is due not only to the position of the island as a western outpost of the Eurasian continent, but also to the peculiar elements of which the flora is composedand to the differences shown by the flora and vegetation when these are compared with the botanical features of Great Britain. North-east Ireland is, in some respects, less interesting botanically than the western districts but there are compensating features. The matter is stated thus in the introduction to the work at present under notice: “The position of the area is such that it is removed from the regions occupied by the most marked plant-groups to be found in Ireland—the flora of the south-west and west, with its fascinating admixture of Mediterranean, Pyrenean and North American plants; the Central Plain, with its rich assortment of lime-loving and swamp-loving species; and the south-east and east coasts, which connote the presence of species, mostly of southern facies, favouring sandy and gravelly soils. But as will be seen, certain members of all these groups penetrate into the north-east. On the other hand, asa glance at a map might suggest, the region is rich in plants of Scottish type, which here reach their maximum in the country.”
A Flora of the North-east of Ireland
Samuel Alexander Stewart Thomas Hughes Corry. Second edition. Flowering Plants, Vascular Cryptogams and Charophytes, by Dr. Robert Lloyd Praeger; Mosses and Liverworts, by William Rutledge Megaw. Pp. lix + 472. (Belfast: The Quota Press, 1938.) 10s. 6d.
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TURRILL, W. A Flora of the North-east of Ireland. Nature 143, 780 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143780a0
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