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Europe and has now become well establisied as a garden weed in 

 north-west Ireland. Already recorded for four counties in 

 Scotland, but only beginning to make its appearance in England. 



ETJPHEASIA Linn. 

 1. E. officinalis Linn. — JEyebright. 



Districts I. II. III. IV. Y. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XL XII, 



Lat. 51i°-55i°. Throughout Ireland. Type, British. 



Heaths and pastures ; common. Fl. June- August. 



Sea-level in IS". Antrim and S. Cork. To 2400 ft. in Donegal 

 {Flor. JJlst.) ; to 2930 ft. inWicklow {Hm-t) ; to 2990 ft. in Kerry 

 {More). 



Far. GBACiLis Fries — V. Oldcastle, Meath : Praeger i8x)'j. — 

 VII. Bog banks at the entrance of the Inny river into Lough 

 Derevaragh, Westmeath : Levinge iSg^. — ^VIII. Inishbofin : More 

 iSjb. — XII. Eocky banks of the Bloody Bridge river, Down : 

 S.SfF. i8qa. Between Ballyeaith and Ballintoy, Antrim : Shool- 

 Ired 'i8g4. Basalt debris on Knockagh (Stewart) : S.^F. i8gj. 



Of the many other segregates of this variable species, E. Eosi- 

 KoviANA Sayne and E. beevipiia Bwn. et Grem appear to be the 

 most widespread in Ireland. E. boeealis Towns, and E. nemoeosa 

 S. Mart, have also been observed. 



F. Salislv/rgensis Punk. 



Districts — — — — _ VI. — — IX. — — — 

 Lat. 53°-53i°- West Ireland. Type, Hibernian. 



Lowland. Dry rooky places on limestone ; rare. Fl. Jxdy- 

 August. 



VI. On Aran island, 1852 : Oliver i8^^. About Castle Taylor, 

 Galway (as F. cuprea Jord.) More : Cyl. Abimdant on limestone- 

 crags near Ballyvaughan, Clare, 1895 (iV. C.) : Ir. Nat. i8g'j. In 

 rough limestone country by the south-east shore of Lough Corrib 

 near Menlough, Galway, 1892 {H. 8f J. Oroves) : Journ. of Bot.. 

 iSg'j, p. jS.—IX.. Ifear Clonbiu' on low limestone cHfEs south of 

 Lough Mask, Co. Mayo, 1895 (Sev. F. S. Mwrshdl) : Jowrn. of Bot.. 

 i8gb,p.44i. 



"Widespread and usually alpine or sub-alpine in Europe from 

 Norway to Greece. Lowland ia Ireland, hardly reaching above 20ft 

 feet. Apparently absent from Great Britain. 



