GLYCERIA FESTUCHZFORMIS IN IRELAND 855 
anywhere in Ireland, one could not so confidently expect to find 
confined to the west. The western maritime flora is scanty com- 
pared to the eastern, and the habitat of this ‘Suiit would protect it 
from frost in any part of Ireland. Furthermore, we find in the 
fauna a remarkable eastern range in Ireland of certain forms 
southern in Europe; this feature now at last finds a parallel among 
plants. The fine beetle, Otiorrhynchus casi eres ow inhabiting the 
Pyrenees and Auvergne, and absent from Great Britain, ranges in 
Ireland along the east coast from Wicklow to Deaeal The snail, 
Helia Pisana, spread =. along the Mediterranean, reappears in 
Madeira and the Azores, 8. Wales and Cornwall, and in Ireland 
along the east coast from Rush to Drogheda. The Dublin house- 
rettii, long — to be confined to that peninsula, is now known 
to have elsewhere a characteristically south-western range in the 
British pea Sadiesing GF Cornwall, Devon, Wales, Cork, and Water- 
ford. the hand, we have Lusitanian animals which 
follow the south-western range of Sazifraga Geum and Pinguicula 
apa tira the isesegians Kerry slug, Geomalacus maculosus. 
eo that, of those southern animals which reach Ireland, some 
ange - shi west coast, oilienta up the east coast. It strikes one as 
a “unnatural that the same thing should happen in the flora.’ 
mama Eibas | taaale Heynhold, pou Reichenb. Fl. Excurs. ft 
1830) ; Reichenb. Icon. Fl. Germ. i. 48, t. 152; Greniet 
rs & Gots = France, iii. 534; ie iatiap. Fl. Eur. i. 881, 
p. 339. 
aise Pht Richter, Pl. ae i. 91 (1890). 
Festuca Hostiti Kunth, Rev. Gram 129 (1 Hee apes i. 898. 
Puceinellia festucaformis Parl. Fl. Tal. i. 368 (18 
Poa arenaria var. 8B Trin. Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Pétorsb. Sér. 6, 
. 0 
Poa distans var. Mau Bert. Fl. Ital. i. 515 ee in part. 
Poa festuceformis Host, Gram. Austr. iii. 12, t. 17 (1805). | 
? Poa mediterranea Chab. Ac t. ‘Soe. Linn. Bord. xix. 45 (1858). 
The following description has been drawn ok and the plate pre- 
pared from specimens sent by Mr. Lloyd Prae 
a little over two feet high. Sean cespitose, erect, 
— genioalate at the aoe r nodes, surrounded at the base “ 
internodes are, except the uppermost, closely enveloped ea their 
whole length by the leaf-sheath. Leaf-sheath glabrous in the three 
upper leaves, ranging from 4 or 5 to or 8 inches, the blades 
fro 
the ‘the ifleweote Ligole oe com: entire, 
with bluntly rounded apex, reaching 1}linesin length. Blade very 
si thickened ve the insertion of the pn en ascending 
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