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POTEEIUM Linn. 



1. P. Sanguisorba Linn. — Leaser Bwnet, 

 P. dietyoomrpum Spact. 



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



Lat. 51|-°-54^°. Middle Ireland, chiefly. Type, English. 



Pastm-es, dry banks, and gravelly places; locally ahnndant. 

 Fl. May- June. Caleieole B. 



I. Fields near Blackrock {Rev. Br. Sinchs) : Flor. Corlc. At 

 Palacetown, Kinsale {Rev. J. Stopford), and railway embankments, 

 "Woodlands, Bandon : AUin's Cork. — ^11. Pastures in Little Island : 

 Brummond 1820. In a field near Kilcree, Cloyne {Rev. Mr. Pyne) : 

 Cyh. Near MaUo-w {J. Sullivan) : Annot. in Flor. Corh. Near 

 Midleton, 1897; PUTlips. — III. Enisnag Glebe, Elkenny, and 

 Gremian, Queen's Co. {Rev. S. Madden) : Cyh. — IV. In several 

 places about Fassaroe near Bray {Bwrrington) : Rec. Add. Bray 

 Head ; Greenwood Pirn. Eiiockmore, Wexford ; C. B. Moffat. — 

 V. On Knockmaroon HiU and on shady banks by the Dodder: 

 Wade Bull. i'jg4. Abundant at Feltrim Hill, 1893; at Eaheny, 

 1894; for some miles along the Dodder river, 1895 ; on the gravel 

 eskers at Drimnagh and Tymon, 1894, and in many other station& 

 in Co. Dublin ; N. C. Grallows Hill near Athy, Kildare {T. Chand- 

 lee) ; rocks at Carton near Maynooth {J. Bouglas) : Cyl. — VI. At 

 Castle Taylor and Garryland, Galway {More) : Cyl. Abundant in 

 all three Aran Islands, 1892, and round Ballyvaughan, Clare, 1895 ; 

 K. C. — VII. Banks near Dromineer, Lough Derg, Tipperary, 1896 ; 

 N. G. — XI. BaUyshannon {Admiral Jones) : Cyl. — ^XII. In some 

 abundance in a meadow at Glenmore near Lisbum, 1892, and again 

 in 1895 (</". S. Bodies) : Ir. Nat. i8g2 Sf i8gs — ^probably intro- 

 duced in. this station, the only one for N.-E. Ireland. 



To 900 ft. on basalt in Dublin (iV. C.) ; but usually lowland. 



2. P. officinale Hooker/?. — Great Burnet. 



; officinalis Linn. 

 Districts — — — — — — — VIII. — — — XII. 



Lat. 54°-55°. West and Forth-East. Type, Intermediate-EngUsh, 



Lowland. Banks of lakes and rivers and in damp fields; very 

 rare. Fl. June-August. 



VIII. On the stony shore of Lough Cullin and of Lough Conn 

 in Mayo, abundantly in many places {More) : Cyh. — ^XII. On a dry 



