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2. E. hirsutum Linn. — Great Willow Herh. 



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



Lat. 51i°-65i°. Throughout Ireland. Type, EngHsh-British. 



Lowland. Wet places and banks of ditches, rivers, and streams ; 

 frequent, but rare in many parts of the "West. Fl. July-August. 



3. E. parviflorum Schreb. — Small-flowered Willow Merb. 



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



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

 Lowland. "Wet places ; common. Fl. July- August. 

 M parviflorum x ohscvrum — I. GrlengarifE : Druee i8gz. 



4. E. moutanum Limi. — Smooth Willow Herh. 



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



Lat. 51J°-55J°. Throughout Ireland. Type, British. 



"Woods, banks, walls, gardens, &c. ; common. Fl. June- August. 



Sea-level in N. Deny and S. Cork. To 1600 ft. in Ben Bulben 

 district {B.^V.) ; to 1900 ft. in Tipperary {Sort). 



5. f E. roseum Schreb. — Pale Willow Serb. 



Districts — — — — V. — — — — — — XII. 



Lat. 53i-64J. ITorth-East chiefly. Type, English. 



Lowland. Moist walls and damp, shady places ; rare. (?) Fl. 

 July-August. 



V. Casual on a wet wall near Queensborough, Louth : Praeger 

 iSq'j. Abundant as a garden weed at Dundrum, Co. Dublin, 1897 ; 

 Praeger. — XII. In the orchard at Cranmore, 1820 : Templeton MS. 

 Abundant by the towing\path between the first and second locks 

 of the Lagan canal {Dr. It. Templeton) : Flor. N.-F. — no doubt the 

 same locality as " banks of the Lagan neai Cranmore " given in 

 Flor. ZTlst. Belfast, 1846 ( W. Thompson) : Serb. Babington. Fields 

 near the Ulster railway terminus, Belfast ( W. S. Ferguson) : Flor. 

 Ulst. On a shaded wall at Ballyskeagh, close by the bridge over 

 the Lagan canal, Down, and in an old plantation by the Lagan at 

 Grlenmore, Antrim, 1897 {J. H. Da/vies) : Ir. Nat. iSg'j, p. y. 



Somewhat uncertain in its appearances and probably often over- 

 looked or confounded with F. montanum. Though apparently rare 



