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it at Lough KTaroon {Stewart) : Flor. W.-JE. Mullaghmore and Ben 

 Bradagh, Deny : Hart 1884. At about 200 ft. bet-ween Kiliea 

 and Garvagh, Derry {Prmger) : Journ. of Bot. i8q4. 



Apparently absent from tbe South- West, there being no records, 

 so far, from either Cork or Kerry. 



Quite lowland in many of its Irish stations, descending to 

 200 ft. in Derry, to 275 ft. in Westmeath and to about 100 ft. 

 south of Lough Neagh. Ascends to 2000 ft. in Derry [Moore) ; 

 to 2796 ft. in Down {S.^P.) ; to 2900 ft. in Wicklow (Mart). 



2. V. Myrtillus Linn. — Bilberry; Whortleberry/. 



JSibernioi ppaocdn {Fra/y-adk-awn). 



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



Lat. 51^°-55J°. Throughout Ireland. Type, British-Highland. 



Heathy woods, bogs, moors, and mountains ; common. Fl. April- 

 May. Calcifuge A. 



Descends to 100 ft. in IT. Antrim, and to sea-level in S. Cork. 

 To 2460 ft. in Donegal, and to 2796 ft. in Down [Flor. Vht.) ; to 

 3000 ft. in Wicklow, and to 3414 ft. Kerry {Sort). 



Excluded from large areas in the Irish lowlands by its strong 

 aversion from limestone soils. 



3. V. Oxycoceus Linn. — < 



Oxycoecus palustris Pers. 



Districts I. II. — rV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. — XII. 



Lat. 51f°-55°. South to North. Type, British-Intermediate. 



Wet, spongy bogs ; locally abundant. Fl. June-July. 



I. Sherehee bog near Cloghereen; sparingly in upper Grlen- 

 car ; near Castleisland ; very rare in Co. Kerry : R. W. S. 

 l888 ^-8q. Bog near Dunmauway [Prof. E. Murphy) : Cyb. — ^not 

 seen there since, evidently extremely rare in Co. Cork : AlliWs 

 CJork. — II. Grlenagad, "Waterford [R. Ba/ois); about a mile from 

 Clonmel [Miss S. Grubb) : Cyb. — IV. ISTear Lough Dan and Lough. 

 Bray, Wicklow : Ir. Flor. In Glencree ; B. W. S. Plentiful near 

 Eoundwood, "Wicklow; More. — V. "They" [the berries] "are 

 sent from the Co. Kildare " : Rutty's Bublin. — ^VI. At Castle 

 Taylor : More 18^3. Abundant in bogs near Clonbrock, Gralway ; 

 Praeger i8gb. Plentiful on parts of Monmor Bog, Clare : Stewart 

 i8go. — VII. Quarry bog. Knock Drin, and exceedingly abundant at 

 Scraw bog, Loughanstown, Westmeath : Levinge i8g4. — VIII. Ee- 

 corded for this District in 1st Ed. Cyb., but no locality available. — 



