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4. A. ciliata Linn. — Fringed, Scmd-wort. 



District — — — — IX. 



Lat. 54° 20'— 54° 25'. County SHgo only. T^pe, Hibernian. 



Limestone cliffs ; very rare. Fl. June-July. 



IX. Found on a high, mountain adjoining Ben Bulben, near 

 Sligo iu Septr. 1806: MacL Ear. Near Lobiermot cave, above 

 Grlen Grorragh on Ben Weisken, Sligo {C. 0. Babington): Cyl. 

 Plentiful at Annacoona ; a few plants on Seafin mountain and near 

 Lobiermot cave, south-east of Ben Bulben ; but not seen on Ben 

 Bulben proper : £.8^ V. iS8^. In some quantity on the top of the 

 southern escarpment of Seafin and sparingly to the north-west on 

 clifEs above Glen Goliagh, 1896 ; Hev. C. F. d'Arcg Sj- JT. C. 



Eanges from 1200 ft. on Seafin to 1950 ft. on Annacoona 

 mountain {£. Sf. V.). 



First recorded by Mackay in. 1806 but probably found on Ben 

 Bxdben by Lhwyd in 1699. A specimen collected by Lhywd near 

 Sligo is preserved in Buddie's Herbarium in the British Museum, 

 and this, very likely, is one of the three or four new plants referred 

 to by Lhwyd in the following passage from his letter dated : 

 "Pensans, Cornwall, August 25, 1700" {Phil. Trans, vol. 2/,, 

 pp. 524.-1^12) : — " In the same neighbourhood [SUgo] on the 

 mountains of Ben Bulben and Ben Buishgen we met with a number 

 of the rare mountain plants of England and "Wales and three or four 

 not yet discovered in Britain." 



Though the typical plant is not found in Great Britain, the 

 closely allied A. norvegioa (Giinn) occurs in the Orkneys and 

 Shetlands. 



5. A. peploides Linn. — 8e 



Ronkeneja peploidcB Ehrh. 



Districts I. II. — IV. V. VI. — VIII. IX. — XL XII.. 

 Lat. 51i^°-65i°- Coasts of all Ireland. Type, British.- 

 Sandy and gravelly shores ; frequent. Fl. May-Jxdy. 



SAGINA Linn. 



1. S. apetala Linn. — Annual Pearl-wort. 



Districts I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. — IX. X. XI. XII. 

 Lat. 51 J°-55i°. Throughout Ireland, probably. Type, English. 



Lowland. Walls and dry gravelly places ; frequent, but locally 

 rare. Fl. May-July. 



