314 EUPHOEBIACE^. \_M/^horbia. 



2. E. hiberna Linn. — Irish Spv/rge. 



Tithymalus Mhernious (How's Phytologia). 



Hibernice bainne caoin {Bann-yi hweem), Mild Milk (?) (ironical). 



Districts I. 11. VI. - VIII. [IX.] - XL - 



Lat. 51i°-55°. Soutli and West. Type, Local- Atlantic. 



"Woods, thickets, hilly pastures, and rocky places ; locally 

 ahimdant. Fl. April-June. 



I. Common on the mountains of Keny : Smith's Kerry. It 

 grows ia immense quantities on the public road between Cork and 

 Killarney, and all about Killarney : Wade Bar. Glens north of 

 Castleisland ; abundant along the rivers Feale and Smerlagh; 

 abundant in S. Kerry, less frequent in the north : R. W. S. 

 i88g 8f -qi. Found in great plenty all over the county [Cork] : 

 Smith's Cork. Baltimore; Mizen Head; and Cape Clear Island, 

 1896; and — II. Abundant from Cork to within a few miles of 

 Mallow, 1897; Phillips. Frequent in woods and along streams 

 near Fermoy {T. Chandlee), extending east to the valley of the Nier 

 and Cappoquin, Waterford {Miss S. Grubh) : Cyh. Colligan glen 

 near Dungarvan, Waterford, 1880 {J. Britten): Sart 188^8. — 

 VI. It grows abundantly near Anakirk in the county of Limerick : 

 K'Hogh 1736. At Adare, Co. Limerick : More in litt. 188^. 

 . Abundant along the river at Abbeyf eale, Limerick : R. W. S. i8gi. 

 At Derryea,^about a mile from Chevy Chase, south-east of Gort, 

 Co. Galway, and abundant by the side of the stream in Chevy 

 Chase : Sort zSyj. — VIII. Plentiful at the landing place on 

 Inishturk Island {W. MacMillan): More 1873. — [I-^- On Slieve 

 Bane, Roscommon : Brown Fasciculus — not since recorded for this 

 district.] — ^XI. " Walk'd about a mile up the side of the River at 

 Dunrea — FwphorMa hyherna grows in great abundance, May 31st 

 1800 " : Brown MS. For about 100 yards along the Dunrea river 

 near Buncrana, 1891, found by J. Hunter : Sort, Journ. ofBot.i8gi. 

 Among rocks and bushes on the south side of the Poisoned Glen, 

 Dunlewy, in no great quantity, 1867 {N. Moore) : Bee. Add. 



Sea-level to 1800 ft. in Ken-y {S'art). 



Very abundant in Cork and South Kerry, becoming much rarer 

 towards the North. In Donegal the plant attains its extreme 

 northern limit for Europe, ranging here fully eight degrees of 

 latitude northward of its most northern station on the Continent and 

 five degrees northward of its only British station in North Devon. 



