Eieracium.] COMPOSITE. 203 



I. On Mangerton and Purple mountains, Kerry {H. If. Riihy) : 

 Journ. of Bot. 1884. Turner's mountain, Kerry: Bruce i8gi. In 

 several localities about Killarney : R. W. S. i8go. Sugar Loaf 

 mountain, Glengariffi ( Cwrroll) : Cyb. — VI. Rocky pasture west of 

 Castle Taylor, Galway : More i860. Grlanquin hills and Glan- 

 columbkiUe, Clare: Corry '1880. BaUyvauglian, Clare, 1892; 

 Levinge. — VIII. Eocky margins of streams on tte Twelve Pins of 

 Beannabeola and on Eagle mountain, Connemara : Baclchouse 1856. 

 M-weelrea, Mayo ; and Benchoona, Kylemore, Galway : Sa/rt 1883 a. 

 Locally abundant on Mount Gable near Clonbur : M.Sf 8. i8g6. — 

 IX. Ben Bulben, Sligo: Backhouse i8^b. Paugbrey mountain. Glen- 

 car, Leitrim; and Knockacree, Ox mountains, Sligo, 1896 ; N. C. — 

 XL Side of Muckish, Donegal ( C Moore) : Cyb. Slieve League ; 

 by river Finn ; by Killybegs river ; and at Coolcross, Inisbowen : 

 Sort i88j y. St. John's Point and near Ballyshannon, Donegal : 

 Mart 1886. — XII. Glenariffl and Garron Head, Antrim : Backhouse 

 i8j6 — still plentiful in both stations : Shoollred j8g4. Sparingly 

 on Cave Hill; on Batblin Island; and on Ben Evenagh {Stewart) : 

 Flor. JV.-JS. Basaltic cliffs, DownhiU, Deny : S.^B. iSgs- 

 : From 100 ft. in Antrim to 1100 ft. in Derry {Mor. JV.-H.) ; to 

 1350 ft. in Leitrim {JV. C.) ; 80-1250 ft. in Keriy {R. W. 8.). 



Of the Hieracia apparently peculiar to the British Isles, Mr, 

 Arthur Bennet considers this and S. Gihsoni to be the best marked 

 forms (see Wallace's Island Life, ed. ii., pp. ^61-2). 



4. H. flocculosum Backh. 



Districts — — __—____ — _ XII. 

 Lat. 54°-55°. Down and Antrim only. 



River banks and rocky places ; very rare. Fl. July- August. 



XII. Sparingly on rocky banks of the Spinkwee river above 

 ToUymore Park {Stewart) : Flor N.-E. By the same stream, more 

 abundantly, on shaded rocks in ToUymore Park : S.Sj-B. i8ga. On 

 the basalt of SaUagh Braes, Antrim, 1886 : Stewa/rt i8g4. 



5. H. Schmidtii Tausch. 



S. pallidvm., Fries in pa/rt. 



Districts — — _ _ IX. — XL XII. 



Lat. 54°-55°. North of Ireland only. . Type, Scottish. 



Rocky places and mountain cliffis ; very rare. FL July-August. 



