800° A SKETCH OF THE BOTANY OF IRELAND. 
Another North American plant is the so-called ‘ Blue-eyed 
Grass” of Canada (Sisyrinchium angustifolium), which grows in 
great abundance between Woodford and ~_ eh Derg, in Galway, 
and has recently been found near Millto ae Killorglin, and 
sate ly in a few other scattered Véonlitied in Kerry. A third 
m 
ry scarce 
Kurope, and in ’ Britain occurring aly 3 in Renfrew, Dumbarton, 
in Nort ; i ion j 
d Kirk 
Herefordshire. e Sisyrinchium has given much trouble to 
botanists, for it is difficult to decide whether it should be con- 
sidered a native,—i. e., as having reached Ireland before the advent 
sp 
ae 
new ‘Trish Moonie in oor lends some support to the theory of 
its Arctic origin. e may assume that it aved tebe or during 
the glacial period on two separate points of Ireland,—Cork and 
magh,—both situated not far from the sea-coast. 
Ons more American species, quite lately asi lige in ani is 
is phe ‘ae age which was discovered onl y ag 
ar Cahirdaniel, Co. Kerry, by Mr. Scully, but he pe not sons yee 
i a Porte Dek With these may also be classed Naias flewilis, 
found in Galway and Perthshire, as well as in Carah and Killarney 
Lakes, and Eriocaulon say trad é, which occurs on the west coast 
of Ireland from Donegal to Cor 
e have next to enumerate the Western and South-western 
species, eile in the British Isles, find their head-quarters in 
ork and Kerry, and extend also to the European continent. Thes 
and eastward to the Cummeragh and Knockmeildown mountains of 
Waterford ; and thus is the mos st widely distributed of the whole 
West Irish group. 8. Geum and S. hirsuta (the latter probably only 
a variety) are found in Cork and erry only, and keep at a lower 
level than S. wmbrosa, which, in a as well as in Spain, 
nado quite at home among the alpine s 
ica salves eect species may be metbeatently arranged under the 
IIl.—Puants pistriguTep ALONG THE oe Coast From GALWAY OR 
ONEGAL To Kr 
Saaifraga umbrosa, Carum -ieeaticaas Euphorbia hyberna, As- 
plenium acutum (the last also in North-east Ire eland), Helianthemum 
guttatum, found on Inishbofin and Inish Turk (ranges from these 
islands to Three-Castle Head, Cork), 
