Sisi/rinchium.] ieidace^. 291 



ORDER LXVn.— IRroACEiE. 



SISYRINCHIUM Linn. 



I. S. anceps (Lam.) — Narrow-leaved SisyrincUum. 



District __-_ — 6------ 



Lat. 53°-54°. West of Ireland— Galway only. 

 Hibernian type. Not found in Great Britain. 



Boggy and teathy places ; very rare. Fl. July. 



6. In several places near Woodford, Galway. In a low 

 meadow on the bank of a stream called the Woodford river, 

 four miles from Woodford and one mile from Lough Derg, 

 near the police barrack at Rossmore. In a piece of mountain 

 pasture, in the opening of a wood on a hill two miles north- 

 east of Woodford, about 300 feet above the sea ; also on the 

 race-course near the village of Woodford ; there is no garden 

 near, and no probability of its having been cultivated in the 

 neighbourhood ; Mr. James Lynam In a coarse meadow in 

 the opening of the wood half a mile north of Woodford ; 

 Mr. James Lynam in a letter addressed to Dr. Mackay (1847). 

 Mrs. Matthews, in a letter to the late Dr. Mackay, describes 

 the plant as having been observed by her in two places more 

 than a mile apart, in a wet ditch by the side of a mountain 

 road adjoining a stony moor, and in another similar marshy 

 place abounding with Nariheaium, Anagallis tenella, Haibenaria 

 hifolia, Drosere rotundifoUa, and other bog plants. 



When searching for Imda saMcina in August, 1865, Dr. 

 Moore paid a hasty visit to Woodford, and though he did 

 not succeed in finding the Sisyrinchium, still, judging from the 

 nature of the locality, he is inclined to believe the plant 

 to be indigenous in the stations above given. 



The claims of this species to be considered a native of 

 Ireland are of especial interest with reference to the connexion 

 between the British and North- American Floras (see Cylele 

 Britannica iv., pp. 387, 391 ; and A. De Candolle, Geographie 

 Botanique Baisonniee). 



Discovered by Mr. James Lynam in 1845. 



