Sihjlum,] COMPOSITE. 195 



SILYBUM VaiU. 



1. *S. Marianum Gsertn. — Milk Thistle. 



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



"Waste places and cultivated groimd, usually near houses or 

 ruins ; rare. Fl. July-September. 



I. By the ruins at Kilshannig, Castlegregory, Kerry : Hiwt 

 1884.. Magharee Islands ; Barrow Harhour ; Banna ; Beal Castle, 

 &c., Kerry; R.W. 8. Timoleague Abbey, Cork: Drummond 1820, 

 Eailway cutting near Blaokrock, 1897; Phillips. At Glandore 

 {Miss Hungerford) ; at Courtmacsherry (C. Longfield) ; and — 



II. Near Mallow {T. Chandlee) : Allin's Cork. JS'ear Clonmel 

 (Miss S. Gruhh) : Cyl. Field side near Tipperary ; R. W. S. — 



III. Lacken Hill, Kilkenny {Rev. S. Madden) ; Rock of Dunamase, 

 Queen's Co. {T. Chandlee): Cyl. — IV. Wear Chapel railway station, 

 Wexford: £.-JE^,Sj-M. i8g2. — V. "Warren House, on the way to 

 Howth : Wade Dull. Plentiful in. the churchyard at KHbarrack : 

 Mach. Cat. 1825 — still there in 1894; N. C. Sandy fields about 

 Eush : Ir. Flor. Donnybrook, Dublin, 1894 ; More. ISTeax BaUi- 

 tore, Kildare {J. Morrison) : Cyl. Eoadside near Castle BelUngham, 

 Louth : Butler i8go. — VI. Askeaton, Limerick : Stewart z8go. 

 By the ruins of Muckinish Castle, Clare, 1895 ; and — ^VII. By the 

 old church at Dromineer, Lough Derg, Tipperary, 1896 ; N. C. — 

 VIII. On the beach near Galway {Prof. Mehille) : Cyl. — X. In 

 Armagh, at Maighery {Rev. W. F. Johnson) ; and at Seagoe {Rev. H. 

 W. Lett) : Praeger i8g3. — XII. At Magilligan : Sampson 1802. 

 Benone, MagiUigan, Derry, 1835: Moore MS. Portbradden and 

 Toomebridge {Stewart): Flor. W.-F. Crawfordsbum, Down; and 

 "White Park Bay, Antrim {Praeger) : S.SfP. zSgj. 



Long established in some of its stations in sandy ground near the 

 sea, but in all cases a more or less obvious relic of ancient cultivation 

 and nowhere occurring in abundance. 



SA"CJSSTJEEA DC. 

 1. S. alpina DC. — Mountain Saw-wort. 



Districts I. II. — IV. VIII. — — XI. XII. 



Lat. 52°-55i°. West Ireland, chiefly. Type, Highland. 



"Wet alpiue cUfEs and grassy mountain ledges; very rare. 



Fl. August. 



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