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2. I. salicina Linn. — Willow-haoed Inula. 



Districts _ — — — — VI. VII. — — 



Lat. 52° 55' — 53° 5'. Stores and islands of Lough. Derg, in Gralway 

 and Tipperary. Type, Hibernian. 



Lowland. Eocky and bushy places on limestone; very rare, 

 Fl. June-July. 



VI. " In June, 1843, I went to Portumna, Co. Galway, for the 

 purpose of getting specimens of Teucrium Soordium which grows; 

 plentifully on the margins of Lough Derg. When botanizing along 

 the shores of that great river-lake I observed a plant growing 

 sparingly and unknown to me in the flowerless state in which it 

 then was. ... I picked some specimens . . . which remained in 

 my herbarium unnamed ... up to the present year. . . . When 

 Dr. Syme saw the specimens he at once suggested that they might 

 prove to be Inula salicina ... I went this year in August and had 

 the satisfaction of re-discovering the Inula ; but could only find 

 two specimens which had flowered and were then seeding " {Dr. B. 

 Moore) : Jowrn. of Bat. i86^, p-JJJ. One plant in an island near 

 Rossmore, Lough Derg, and a few others on the shore of the main- 

 land: Linton i886. On an island in Lough Derg, about three 

 miles south-west of Portumna, and again in considerable quantity 

 on an islet eight miles to the southward in the same lake, 1896 : 

 N. C. i8gy. — VII. Eocky shores of Lough Derg at Curraghmore, 

 and on Brynas Island, Tipperary, 1896 (C. J. Lilly): Ir. Nat. 

 i8g6, p. sdg. 



One of the rarest of our native plants and not found in Great 

 Britain. Widespread on the European continent, from Greece to 

 Norway, and from Western France to Central Eussia, reaching its 

 extreme western limit in Ireland. 



Pirst discovered by David Moore in 1843. 



3. I. crithmoides Linn. — Golden Samphire. 



Districts I. II. — IV. V. — — — — — — — 



Lat. 51^°-53J°. South and South-East coasts. Type, Atlantic- 

 English. 

 Eocks and banks by the sea ; rare. Fl. July-August. 

 I. "It grows on the rooks near Bolus Head in Iveragh, and on 

 other parts of the sea-cliffs " : SmitKs Kerry. On the rocky coast 

 near Dingle {Moore) : Cyl. Not seen recently in Kerry ; R. W. S. 

 Near Castlefreke {E. W. Townsend^ : Flor. Cork 1843 — stiU there : 



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