226 EEICACE^. 



VIII. '' In most of the moimtains of GaUo-way and Mayo grows 

 an elegant sort of heath, bearing large thyme leayes, a spike of fair 

 pm-ple floTrers like some Campanula, and viscous stalks " {Lhwy^ : 

 Phil. Trans. I'jis. It is frequent ... in the mountains of Mayo 

 as also through the whole of Hiar Connaoht in Galway: Ray, 

 Hist. III., p. g8, 1704. On many of the islets in Lough Corrib; 

 at the foot and sides of the mountains west of Lough Mask ; on the 

 Eeek, Croaghpatrick : Brown Fasoie. i'j88. Island in Lough 

 Mask, 1894; R. Warren. Plentiful within half a mile of the town 

 of Galway, and in many places for forty miles further west : Mack. 

 Rar. In the County of Mayo, between the Killary and Croagh- 

 patrick : Mack. Cat. In great abundance near Delphi in Munisk : 

 Ball 18 jg. On Canova Island, Lough Corrib : More i860. Old 

 Head, south side of Clew Bay {Miss K. M. Lindsay) : Cyh. Spar- 

 ingly in Cuiraun AchUl ; H. B. B. BUlwyn. On the Maamtrasna 

 mountains ; on Croaghpatrick ; Loughty mountain ; Mweelrea ; 

 Maamturk and Twelve Bens : Sort 188 j a. Frequent along Galway 

 Bay, from Bama to Inveran, 1895; abundant on low hills near 

 Oughteraxd and heaths near Derryclare Lough, 1896; abundant at 

 Eoundstone and Eylemore, 1897; iV. C. — IX. Sparingly between 

 Lisloughry and Lackafinna, Cong, Co. Mayo ; Miss M. F. Jackson. 



Sea-level to 1900 ft. in Galway and Mayo {Sort). 



First found by Lhwyd about 1699 and first published by Eay in. 

 1704. Lhwyd's original Irish specimens are preserved in Buddies 

 Serla/rium, British Museum. 



Not in Great Britain. Abundant in Northern Spain and in 

 Portugal ; rare in south-west France, ceasing south of the Loire : 

 also occurs in a dwarf variety in the Azores. 



PTEOLA Linn. 

 1. P. rotundifolia Linn. — Round-learned Winter-green. 



Districts — — — — — — VII. 



Lat. 53°-53J°. Central Irelaud. Type, Scottish-Germanic. 



Lowland. "Wet bogs ; very rare. Fl. July-August. 



Til. " In a Bogge by Eoscre ia the King's County. Mr. 

 Eeaton " : Sow, Phytologia 1650 (as P. vulgaris Lob.). Sparingly 

 on large bog neai Multyfarnham, "Westmeath, 1870 {Moore ) : Rsc. 

 Add. Bog of Lisclogher, "Westmeath ; Rev. W. Reynell. Abundant 

 in the Scraw Bog, Loughanstown and Ballynegall ; and sparingly 

 in Lisclogher Bog, "Westmeath : Levinge i8q4. 



