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Prom 100 to 650 ft. ia Down (-S. ^P.); to 1000 ft. in Dublin 

 «nd Wioklow (JV. C). 



Not common and becoming rare in tbe North-East : Flor. IT.-M. 

 Abundant in the "West, rare in the East. 



OEDEE XIY.— M:ALVACE.a:. 



ALTERA Linn. 

 1. J A. officinalis Linn. — Mwrsh . 

 Districts I. II. VI. — VIII. -— -- XI. — 



Lat. 51f°-54i°. South and West coasts. Type, English. 



Lowland. Salt marshes and ditches near the sea ; very local. 

 Fl. Augusl^September. 



I. Sparingly by the roadside south of Ballybunnion, and abun- 

 dant by damp ditches close to Beal castle : Stewart i8go. "Widely 

 scattered in Kerry, but all stations suspicious ; R. W. S. Cape 

 Clear Island : Drummond iSso — still there in 1896 ; PMllvps. 

 Coast near Kilbrittain ( Carroll) : Cyl. On Inisherkin : Allin's 

 Gorh — abundant there in 1896 ; Phillips. At Grarrettstown; near 

 Leap; Baltimore; Corrigilihy; escaped from cultivation in most 

 or all of these stations : Allin's Cork. — II. Cable Island near 

 "Youghal Harbour : Smith's Corlc. In many salt marshes in Co. 

 Cork : Wade Bar. Strand at EHfarassy, "Waterford {Miss A. 

 Taylor) : Cyl. — VI. In prodigious plenty in all the salt marshes 

 about the rivers Shannon and Fergus : Waie Ra/r. Marshy grounds 

 north side of the Shannon near Limerick : Mack. Cat. Near 

 Lahinch, Co. Clare : More i860. — ^VIII. Old Head, south side of 

 Clew Bay, Mayo {Miss S. GruU) : Cyl.— XI. Plentiful in a 

 marshy pool on Carrickfinn Island, west of Bunbeg : Sort 1880. 

 North-east comer of Glen Bay, near Carrick, thoroughly established : 

 HaH 1885^. 



In most, if not all, of its stations an escape from cultivation. 



LAVATEEA Linn. 

 1. L. arborea Linn. — Tree Mallovt. 



Districts I. II. — IV. V. VI. — VIIL — — — XII. 



Lat. 51i°-56i°. Coasts from South to North. Type, Atlantic. 

 Sea-cHfEs ; rare. Fl. July-September. 

 I. On several of the Blasket Islands : Ba/rrington 1881. On 



