£aUota.] LABIATE. 295 



escape : Moore MS. Mill Bay and Killougli Bay, Down {Stewart) ; 

 Ballycasile and Buslmiills {Praeger) ; and in numerous otter 

 stations in Antrim and Down : Flor N.-E. and S. 8f P. i8g^. 



Much grown in cottage gardens and probably ia all cases an 

 ■escape or outcast from cultivation. 



The Irish plant is B. fmtida (Lami.). The variety B. ruAeralis 

 '{Sw.) has not, so far, been recorded for Ireland. 



TEUCEIUM Linn. 



1. T. Scordium Liun. — Water Germander. 



Districts — VI. VII. — IX. — — — 



Lat. 52f°-53|°. Middle Ireland. T^pe, Germanic-English. 



Lowland. Eocky and gravelly lake shores, also by riversides ; 

 locally abundant. Fl. July-August. 



VI. On the banks of the Shannon near Limerick : K'Hogh, 

 For several miles along the Shannon above and below Portumna 

 Bridge {Moore) : Phytol. 184^, p. i2q. Near the bridge at Portumna, 

 ^nd thence along the west shore of Lough Derg, plentiful {Moore) : 

 Cyh. Very abundant along the western shores of Lough Derg and 

 on the adjacent islands from Portumna, Gal way, to Rineacrush 

 Point, Clare, 1896 : W. C. iSgy. Edge of a small lake near Glan- 

 quin, Clare {P. B. G' Kelly) : Levinge i8g4. — VII. Marshy grounds 

 near the bridge of Portumna, Tipperary : •Made. Ra/r. Very abun- 

 dant along the eastern shore of Lough Derg and on the adjacent 

 islands from Derry island to Eyan's Point, Tipperary, 1896 : N. C. 

 i8gy. Abundant on the islands and shores of Lough Eee, and 

 below the bridge at Athlone on the banks of the Shannon : B. SfV. 

 188'j. — IX. Banks of the Shannon near Lanesborough fide I. B. 

 [Isaac Butler] : Annot. in Threlkeld. Banks of Lough Eee near 

 Knockroghery, Eoscommon ; R. Bayly. 



Also recorded for District II. in Smith's "Cork" and "Water- 

 Jbrd," from the " Eiver Bride east of Castle Lyons " and from a 

 " brookside between Lismore and Tallow, Waterford." The plant 

 is again recorded from the Castle Lyons station by Wade {Plantis 

 Rariores 1804), but as it has not recently been observed either 

 in Cork or "Waterford it is to be feared that some mistake was 

 made. 



Almost confined to the Shannon basin, where it occurs in great 

 profusion on the shores of Loughs Eee and Derg. 



