166 EUBIACE^. \_Gali^m. 



5. fG. Mollugo Linn. — Great Sedge Bedstraw. 



Districts — II. — IV. V. VI. X. XI. XII. 



Lat. 52i°-55J°. Prom Soutt to l^orth. Type, British-English. 



Lovland. Dry banks, bushy places, and pastures; rare. Fl. 

 June-August. 



II. By the lawn at Blenheim, Waterford ; and — IV. Sparingly 

 in two fields near Alderton, "Wexford : B.-M. ^ G. i8qo. At 

 Eathdnun, 1883, and plentiful in Glencree, 1884 ; Sort. By the 

 avenue at Vallombrosa, Bray {Bwrrington) : Bee. Add. KiHoughrim, 

 Wexford : Moffat i88q. — V. At Sandymount near the Martello 

 Tower: Mack. Cat. Between Finglass quarries and Glasneyin; 

 conunon on the lands of Abbeville and BaUymun : Ir. Flor. At 

 Hazelhatch, 1893; EJLUester and Finglas quarries, 1894; Howth 

 and Crumlin, 1895; not infrequent in Co. DubHn; N. C. Kilkea 

 Castle, Kildare {J. Douglas) : Cyh. — VI. Very sparingly at BaUy- 

 vaughan, Clare, 1892; Levinge. — X. Near Armagh {Bev. W. F. 

 Johnson) ; in several places in Tanderagee upper demesne : Praeger 

 i8g^. — ^XI. In laid-down grass near Rossapenna hotel, Donegal 

 {Hart) : Journ. of Bot. i8g6, p. jgg. — XII. In Mr. Tennant's 

 lawn at Mount Vernon [Belfast], 1797 {Templeton) : WTiitla MS. — 

 perhaps the preceding species rather than this. 'Neax EgHnton, 

 Derry {Mrs. Leebody) : Journ. of Bot. i8g2. 



To 900 ft. in Dublin {JSf. C.) ; but usuaUy lowland. 



Far. DrsuBBicTJM {GauA.) — V. I^ear Saint Eintan's, Howth, 

 1891 ; Levinge. In lawns at Eathmines, 1895-97 ; N. C. — 

 X. Strabane, Tyrone {Miss M. C. Knowles) : Ir. Nat. iSgy. This 

 variety is probably in all cases introduced with grass seed. 



Var. ocHEoiETTCTJM Syme. — G. Mollugo x verum. — IV. At Grey- 

 stones : Praeger i8g'j. 



6. G. saxatile Linn. — Seath Bedsl/raw. 



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

 Lat. 61^°-55J. Throughout Ireland. Type, British. 



Eocks, heaths, moors, &c. ; common. M. June-August. Cahi- 

 fiige A, 



Sea-level in N. Antrim and S. Cork. To 2460 ft. in Donegal 

 and to 2796 ft. in Down {Flor. Ulst.) ; to 3000 ft. in Wicklow and 

 to 3414 ft. in Keny {Ea/rt). 



A common plant on most of the mountain summits in Ireland. 



