Mentha.] LABIATE. 279 



Far. GBACiLis {Smith) — X. Stony shore of Virginia Water, 

 'Cavan : Praeger iSq^j. 



Var. GENXHJS {Linn.) — II. Ditcli by tte road between Agbada 

 and Cloyne, Cork, 1895; Phillies. — III. By the MountmeUiek 

 canal a mile above Portarlington, Queen's Co. : Praeger iSg'j. 



5. M. arvensis Linn. — Corn Mint, 



Districts I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XL XIL 



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



Lowland. Cultivated ground, waysides, and waste places; 

 frequent. Fl. August-September. 



6. f M. Pulegium Linn. — Penny-royal. 



Districts I. II. — IV. — VI. XII. 



Lat. 51i-°-64|°. From South to Forth. Type, English. 



Lowland. Marshy meadows, and damp waste places and road- 

 sides ; local. Fl. August-September. 



I. In moist ground about Lixnaw, in great quantities : SmitKs 

 Kerry. In Earl Kenmare's Park near KiHamey : Wade Rwr. 

 Plentiful near Calnafersy : Maeh. Par. Abundant at Murriagh 

 near Ballynagall, and roadside near Ballydavid, Dingle promontory : 

 Hart 1884. Kenmare ; Eossbehy ; near EiUorglin ; Sherehee, near 

 KUlarney, &c. ; widespread in Kerry, but not common: R.W.B. 

 i88g, Sj-o. Roadside between Bandon and Ballinadee ; on an 

 island in SchullBay : Allin's Cork. Near Groleen, 1896; Phillips. — 

 II. Pretty frequent on the banks of the Blackwater : Smith's 

 Cork. Abundant at Ballycotton : Prummond z8zg. Great Island; 

 Imokilly, &c. : Flor. Cork. Kilshannig ; Mallow, &c. : Allin's 

 . Cork. — IV. Eethard, "Wexford {J. Morrison) ; at the base of the 

 Great Sugar Loaf, Wicklow {Moore) : Cyh. — VI. Chiu'chyard at 

 Ennis, and marshy fens about the barony of Islands and Bunratty : 

 Wade Ear. Near the river at Hermitage, Ennis {Rev. T. Warren) : 

 Cyh. At Ennis, 1892; Levinge. — XII. Plentiful on the Creagh 

 bog. Lough Beg, and sparingly in wet meadows by the side of 

 Lough Neagh, Co. Derry : Moore MS. Abundant in a damp 

 meadow at the north end of Lough Beg, Antrim {Miss Knowles) : 



-S.SfP.i8gs. 



Perhaps indigenous in Kerry and Cork ; apparently introduced 

 •elsewhere. 



