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BETAS Linn, 



1. D. octopetala Linn. — Mountain Avens. 



Sibernici Leacin {Lay-fheen — Zay-heen). 



Districts — VI. — Till. IX. X. XI. XII. 



Lat. 53°-55i°. "West and Norti. Type, Highland. 



On limestone and basaltic hiUs, also at low levels in limestone 

 districts on drift bants and in rocky places ; locally abundant. 

 Fl. June-July. 



VI. " In tbe mountaines betwixt Gort and Galloway. It makes 

 a pretty shew in tte winter with bis rough heads like Viorna. 

 Mr. Meaton " : How, Phytohgia 1630, p. 120. In many places in 

 the Burren Mountains, Co. Clare : Wade Bar. Extremely abundant 

 round BaUyraughan, Clare, especially to the westward, where it 

 covers the hill tops for miles with a dense carpet, 1895; W. C. 

 Plentiful about Castle Taylor, Galway : More iSjj. — VIII. On 

 limestone drift at sea-level on Blake Hill {Prof, Melville) : Cyl. 

 Still in this station (usually called Gentian Hill) near Salthill, 

 Galway, in 1895 : Ir. Nat. l8gs, p. aa'j. Lisoughter Hill, Eecess 

 [Prof. J. W. Ca/rr) : P. Sf C. iSg^.—IK., Common on Ben Bulben 

 and Ben Buishgen in the neighbourhood of Sligo, 1699 {LhwyS) : 

 PMl. Trans., Vol. 2'j,p. 524. Legale, SHgo {AdmiralJones) : Cyl. 

 Generally distributed all over the Ben Bulben range : B.SfV. 188^. — 

 X. At Poulaphuca near Church HiU, Co. Fermanagh : Wade Ra/r, 

 On the summit of Knockmore, Fermanagh : Stewart 1882. — XI. On 

 Slieve League, very rare and barren : Sort 1885 y. — XII. Northern 

 face of Magilligan rocks, 1796 : Templeton MS. Ben Evenagh, Co. 

 of Deny {B. Moore): Flor. Mb. 1836 — and in 1878 {Carry): 

 Flor. N.-H. Fairly plentiful on Knock Dhu, Antrim, 1884 and 

 1897 {Rev. H. W. Lett) : Ir. Nat. z8g7, p. 280. 



Sea-level in Galway. At 1300 ft. in Donegal and 1100-1150 

 ft. in Derry {Han-t) ; 800-1220 ft. in Ben Bulben district {B. ^V.); 

 to 1040 ft. in Clare {N. C.) — much less alpine in Ireland than in 

 Great Britain. 



In SmitKs Kerry, I'jsb, this plant is recorded as found : — " On 

 the hiUs near the passage into the upper lake of Killamey," and 

 in the same author's Cork, ly^o : — " On high grounds between the 

 barony of Muskerry and the County of Keijy." Lhwyd also 

 mentions the plant as common on mountains and heathy grounds in 



