COMPOSITE. 75 



ASTER Linn. Starwort. 



1. A. trlpoleuxn Linn. 



Muddy salt marshies, and wet maritime rocks— common around the coast. 

 Fl. mid. July till mid. Sept. 



ERIGEROir Linn. 



1. E. acrls Linn. Blue Fleabane. 



Coast sandhills — very rare. Fl. July and Aiig. {Cyb. Hib.). 

 Down — Bally kinler near Dundrum— one small patch on the sand dimes ; 

 R.Ll.P. 



The station on Cave HUl, reported in Flor. Belf., was no doubt an 

 error, the plant is certainly not there. P. dysenterica was probably the 

 plant intended. 



BE:L]^ZS Linn. Daisy. 



1. B. perennis Linn. 



Pastiires, banks, and heaths — very common everywhere, and at all 

 elevations up to 1500 feet. Fl. Feb. till Nov. 



SOUDAGO Linn. Golden Eod. 



1. S. vlrg-aurea Linn. 



Ledges of rocks— widely distributed, but not very common. Fl. latter 



end of July till mid. Sept. Occiu-s at elevations of 300 to close on 2000 



feet, 



Down — Plentiful in the mountains of Mourne ; Harris's Down, 1744. 

 ToUymore Park, and rocks at Blue Lake in Moiu-ne 

 Mountains; Flor. Ulst. Slieve Donard ; S.A.S. By the 

 Shimna, and Kilkeel rivers, also on Slieve Bemagh, and Big- 

 nian moimtains ; C. Dickson. Rostrevor, and Kilbroney ; 

 R.L1.P. 



Antrim — Rocks of Slemish; Templeton, 1793. Knockagh; Flor. Ulst. 

 Glenariffe; B.N.F.C., 1875. SaUagh Braes, and Garron 

 Point; S.A.S. Camlough Glen ; R.Ll.P. 



Derry— Slieve Gallion rocks ; Templeton. Common on the north side of 

 the basaltic mountains; D.M. Benbradagh, banks of the 

 Roe, and in Lignapeiste Glen ; S.A.S. Sawel ; H. C. Hart. 

 Var. y S. CAMBRICA Hudson. 



Down — Banks of the river in Tollymore Park ; Wade Ear. 



This may be correct, but we have not seen any specimens that could 



be considered as identical with Hudson's plant, and most likely Wade'" 



plant was merely a dwarf form of the type. 



