92 LEGUMINOS^. 



4. V. Orobus DC. — Wood Bitter 



Orohus sylvatieus Linn. 



Districts yi. VII. Vni. XII. 



Lat. 53J°-54|°. Galway, King's Co., and Antrim. Type, Scottish- 

 Intermediate. 



Eooky and bushy places ; very rare. Fl. June-August. 



VI. On rough, heathery moorland iu several places round Castle 

 Lambert, near Athenry, 1888; Mrs. M. E. Joyce.— Vll. In a 

 wood within four miles of Cloughjordan, King's Co. : Flor. 

 Rib. — VIII. Bilben-y Island and other islands, Lough Corrib : 

 Wade Gallovid—BiVDenj Island, 1897 ; Miss M. F. Jaohson. By a 

 mountain stream north of the Half-way House, Connemara : 

 Ogilby 184^. — XII. One large plant on the basaltic rocks of 

 SaUagh Braes, Antrim, 1873 {Stewart) : Guide to Belfast i8'/4, and 

 seen again iu the same station iu 1882 : B. N. F. C. Proc. 1882-83. 



The record in Ray^s Synopsis, Ed. II., ibgb: — " Orobus syha- 

 tious nostras, found near Eostrevor, Dr. Sherard," should perhaps be 

 referred to V. sylvatica, which grows at Eostrevor, where V. Orolus 

 has not been observed by any botanist subsequent to Sherard. 



5. V. sylvatica Linn. — Wood Vetch. 



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

 Lat. 51|-°-55i°. Throughout Ireland, probably. Type, Scottish- 

 British. 



Bushy and rocky places ; local and rather rare. Fl. June- 

 August. 



I. Abundant in the woods south of Eoss Island, Killaraey: 

 Wade. Ear. Eough Island and Eoss Island, Killarney : B. W. S. 

 i88g. In a furze-brake near Bantry ; by the Lee above Carrig- 

 rohan Castle, and — II. Wood by the Blackwater below Permoy : 

 Brummond 1820. Ballybrittain, Cork : Herb. T. Chandlee. BaUy- 

 voyle Head and Mime Head, Co. "Waterford: Sort 1883 p. — 

 III. Wilton, Kilkenny {Rev. S. Madden): Cyb.—IV. Devil's 

 Glen, Wicklow: Flor. Sib. By the coast at Ai-klow Head, 



Wicklow and south of DufEcarrig Eocks, Wexford : Hart 1881 a. 



V. In a small wood on the banks of the Dodder near the Gap of 

 BaOinasoomey : Mack. Cat. In hiUy tHckets between Dalkey and 

 the Malpas ObeHsk : Wade Bubl. lyg^. In thickets east slope of 

 Killiney Hill, 1894, probably the same station as Wade's ; N. C— 



