178 COMPOSITE. 



Sea-level in Derry and S. Kerry. To 650 ft. in Donegal {Swrt) ; 

 to 800 ft. in Down {S. ^ P.). 



A widely distributed species, tut rarely occurring in abundance. 



IinJLA Linn. 

 1 . * I. Heleuium Linn. — Mecampane. 



Districts I. II. — IV. — VI. — VIIL IX. X. XI. XII. 



Lat. 51i°-65i°. From South to ITorth. Type, English. 



Lowland. Eoadside banks, pastures, and waste places, usually 

 near ruins or bouses ; rare. Fl. July-August. 



I. In the barony of Clanmauiice not far from the Abbey of 

 Odomey: SmiWa Kerry. About a mile west of Knigbtstown, 

 Valentia Island {Miss S. Grulh) : Cyl. Near the ruins in Chirrch 

 Islaiid, Lough Currane, WaterviUe, Kerry {More) : Hee. Add. 

 iSja — and in 1892; N.C. Kemnare ; Derrynane; Ardfert, &c. ; 

 widely scattered through Kerry ; iJ. W. S. JSTear the Leap in West 

 Carbery, also in plenty on Cape Clear Island : Smith's Cork. 

 Ballinadee ; Skibbereen ; Union Hall, &c. {Allin) ; and — II. At 

 Toughal ( Ca/rroU) ; rather rare ia Cork : Allin' s CorTc. — IV. BaUy- 

 conigar, Wexford ( CmrrolT) ; and "Whalley Abbey, WicHow {L. 

 Ogilly) : Cyl. — VI. Foot of Shalee Hill near Ennistymon ; abun- 

 dant on the road to St. Bridget's Well, near the ClifEs of Moher, 

 Clare {Rev. T. Wa/rren) : Cyl. Turlough HDl, sis miles east of 

 Ballyvaughan, 1891 ; Levinge. — VIII. Plentiful on Cruig Neit 

 Island, Bertraghbuy Bay, Galway: Balington i8j6. Eoadside 

 near Grurtkreeva, Oughterard ; and — IX. ITear Milford, Mayo ; Miss 

 M. F. Jackson. Marshy place three miles from SUgo; Miss S. 



Wynne. — X. Devenish, Lough Erne {J, Johnston) : Flor. Sil. 



stni in this station, about 20 plants : Barrington i88^. Derryadd 

 {Rev. H. W. Lett) ; and near Goragh Wood, Armagh : Praeger 

 i8g3. — XL Little Binns, Grreenfort, Fanet {Hart) : Rec. Add. 

 Ballyshannon ; Dunkineely; and Glen: Sa/rt i88§y. — XII. Ap- 

 parently wild among limestone rocks between Lame and Garron 

 Head, Antrim {Moore) : Cyl. Plentiful by Lough Neagh shore at 

 Cranfield, &c. ; rare in north-east Ireland, but certainly quite 

 naturalized : Flor. iV. F. 



An old medicinal plant which tenaciously holds its ground in 

 many places, especially in the neighboui-hood of church ruins, but 

 shows little tendency to spread. 



