Stachys.'] LABIATE. 289 



4. S. arvensis Linn. — . 



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



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



Cultivated land, especially in light soils ; rather frequent and 

 locally abundant. Fl. August-September. Caleifuge B. 



Occurring in almost all of the maritime counties and abimdantly 

 in many ; much rarer inland and less frequent in the East than in 

 the "West. 



Sea-level in K Antrini and S. Cork. To 950 ft. in Dublin 

 (N. C.) ; but usually lowland. 



GALEOPSIS Linn. 



1. G. angustifolia Ehrh. — Red S$wp -nettle. 



■G. Ladcmvm Linn, in part. 



Districts — II. III. IV. V. — — 



Lat. 61|°-53J°. South-East, chiefly. Type, EngUsh-British. 



Lowland. Com fields and shingly and gravelly places; rare. 

 Fl. August-September. Caloioole A. 



II. Little Island, Cork, 1854-56 (J. Sullwcm) : Annot. in Flor. 

 CorTi — not seen recently in Cork. — III. Bellevue and Freshford, 

 Kilkenny {Rev. S. Madden) : Cyl. On the esker at Maryborough, 

 ■Queen's Co. {Praeger) : Ir. Nat. iSgj. — IV. Fear Greystones, 

 Wicklow {Moore) : Cyl. Every year in wheat crops at Eassaroe 

 near Bray {Barrington) : Ree. Add. A single plant at Cairn, 

 Wexford : Moffat i88g. — ^V. Among crops near the shore at Mala- 

 hide, abundantly ; by the roadside and in hedge banks and field 

 borders between Chapelizod and Luttrellstown, and elsewhere : 

 Wade Buhl. Feltrim Hill ; lands at Peatown ; broken grounds at 

 Howth: Ir. Flor. In several stations at Howth, 1869 and 1884 

 {Sort) : Flor. Howth Sf MS. Side of Knockmaroon Hill {Mr. 

 Templeton) ; gravelly banks near Cardiff's Bridge : Flor. Sib. At 

 Dundrum near Dublin {Moore): Cyl. At Skerries, 1892; Br. 

 McWeeney. At Clonsilla, 1884: Eerl. R. P. Vowell. Gravelly 

 margin of the Dodder, near Old Bawn, Co. Dublin, 1882; Rev. W. 

 Colgan — abundant here in 1896; N. C. By the railway north of 

 Balbriggan and in a cornfield at Portrane, 1894 ; not infrequent in 

 ■€o. Dublin; iV. C. Erequent in cornfields at Ballitore, Kildare 



