Mamnus.] KHAMNE^. 79 



from Enfleld, Kildare, 1884 ; Dr. H. P. Wright.— Nl. N^ear Eock 

 Forest on the borders of Clare and Gal-way, 1851 : G'Mahony i860. 

 Quite prostrate on limestone flags outside G-arryland wood near 

 G-ort, Gal-way : More 18^^. Glanquin Hills, Clare : Carry 1880, 

 A prostrate variety -with, very small leaves on rooks near Glanquin : 

 Levinge i8g2. Plentiful on Hare Island, Lough Derg, 1896 : N. C. 

 i8gy. — ^VII. In a -wood near Tullamore, Xing' s Co. (Jf. F. 

 Edgeworth) : Cyh. — VIII. On Canova island. Lough Corrib : More 

 i860. Island near Eoss Hill, Clonbur, Lough Mask ; Miss M. F, 

 Jackson. — IX. Derrynany Point, Lough Carra, Mayo : Ball i8^g. 

 East shore of Lough Mask, 1891 ; R. P. Vowell.—Xll. Side of a 

 lake (Bo-w Lake) in the to-wnland of Cree-vytenant, near BaUinahinch, 

 aad plenty among other shrubs in a bog near BaUygo-wan Bridge : 

 Templeton MS. Creagh Island in Lough Beg (Moore) : Flor. Sib. 

 At Portglenone and shores of Lough Neagh at Shane's Castle and 

 near Toombridge (Moore) : Cyh. Ee-disoovered at Shane's Castle 

 near the Main Eiver {Prof. R, 0. Cunningham) : B. W. F. C. Proe. 

 i8go-gi. The last station is the only recent one for district XII., 

 in -which this species appears to have become almost extinct through 

 drainage. 



OEDEE XX.— lEGUMINOS^. 



IJLEX Linn. 



1. U. enropsens Linn. — Fv/r%e\ Whin; Gorse. 



Miherniei Qicearm [Ath-thenn). 



Districts I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XL XII. 



Lat. 51^°-55i°. Throughout Ireland. Type, British. 



Heaths, pastures, and gravelly places ; common in the East, 

 local in the West. Fl. March-May, and again September-October. 



Sea-level in IST. Donegal and S. Cork. To 1450 ft. in Derry; 

 to 1600 ft. in Vicklov, and to 1470 ft. in Kerry (HaH). 



The so-called Irish Eurze, Ulex strictus of Mackay, -which -was 

 found gro-wing sparingly in the grounds of Mount Ste-wart, ITe-w- 

 townards, Co. Do-wn, near the beginning of this century, appears to 

 have been little more than a " sport," and is not no-w kno-wn to 

 occur in a -wild state in Ireland. 



