I9I3' Coi^GAN". — Burnt Groiuid Flora of Killincy. 91 
no doubt, it has eluded discovery, only to be brought to 
light by the devastating lire of July, 1911.^ 
As for IJlcx ciiYopacus, while shoots from old burnt 
stems were numerous at the opening of the present year, 
seedlings were then extremely rare in the burnt ground 
although they were seen there in abundance 3 months 
after the fire. 
A couple of well-grown plants of Lcycesteria formosa, 
a relative of our native Woodbine introduced from the 
Nepal Himalayas and now familiar in shrubberies, were found 
on the edges of the burnt ground, and, more clearly within 
the fire zone, a single plant of Buddleia variabilis appeared. 
Both of these exotics are cultivated in the immediate 
neighbourhood of the hill. The first species, which bears 
succulent berries, was probably introduced to its hill station's 
by the agency of birds, the second was undoubtedly wind- 
borne, for its seeds are provided with remarkably extended 
wings which admirably fit it for long aerial voyages. From 
their apparent age, both of these species must have origi- 
nated in their present stations before the date of the fire 
which helped to reveal their presence ; but as neither 
occupies a position approaching the focus of the fire, their 
survival is of no great interest as a proof of heat-resisting 
capacity. 
In the list of doubtful plants two species are note- 
worthy for their importance as elements in the vegetable 
clothing of the burnt ground, Seduni anglicwn and Rumcx 
Acetosella. The second of these may, perhaps, have origi- 
nated from seeds which survived in the burnt areas, as 
seedlings were found there some three months after the fire. 
It is more probable, however, that it was introduced after 
the fire, and this probability is much stronger in the case of 
the Sedum, which is abundant in rocky and open places all 
over the hill and has minute light seeds well fitted for 
wind dispersal. Together, these two species occupied a 
^The shoots from the creeping rhizome of a specimen found sproutin 
e middle of the burnt gP 
space two yards in diameter. 
