Taxus.] CONIFEE^. 331 



I. " Grrew in prodigious quantities on tte mountains of aU our 

 soutliem baronies until it was destroyed for making coals for the 

 iron-works " : Smith's Kerry I'j^b — still abundant at Muckross and 

 tte Upper Lake, KiUamey, -with many very old dead trees ; R. W. S. 

 "Grows spontaneously in several parts of Carbery. There is one 

 growing on the side of a rocky hill a mile north of Dunmanway 

 where there is scarce any earth to support it yet it is 17 ft. in. 

 circumference": Smith's Corh ij^o — still living in 1845: Flor, 

 CorL Woods near Castletown Berehaven {Bev. Dr. JSinehs); 

 above Carrigrohane on the Lee : Flor. Corh. Mountain near 

 Adrigole, 1894; mountain at Lough Hyne, 1896; islands in the 

 river Lee at Geragh, Macroom, 1897 ; Phillips. — ^11. In Blarney 

 woods : Flor. Corh. — YI. Many fine old trees are to be seen in the 

 mountainous woods of Glanquin, Burren : Wade Ra/r. Some dwarf 

 trees here in 1879: Corry i88o. Abundant on steep cHfEs in 

 Burren : Foot i86^. — VIII. Bilberry Island, Lough Corrib : 

 Ir, Flor. Islets in Craigga More Lake, Connemara {Praeger) : 

 ' Ir. Nat. zSgd.—IX.. Cliffs at Glencar, Sligo, rare : B.S^V. 1883.— 

 X. Sparingly on limestone cliffs at Carrick and Knockmore moun- 

 tains, Fermanagh : Stewart 1882. — XI. In Glen Veagh, and on an 

 island in Lough-an-ure in the Rosses : Hart iS'jg. — XII. Among 

 the rocks at Glenariff, reduced to a few stunted plants, 1795, but 

 said to have been formerly plentiful : Templeton MS. Eocks in the 

 little Deer Park, Glenarm, and on the Cave Hill, 1836 : Serh. 

 Moore. On Ben Evenagh, Derry, 1835 : Moore MS. Extremely 

 rare in the North-East and not seen recently : Flor. N.-F. 

 To 1200 ft, in Deny {Moore MS.). 



Now become very rare in the wild state though once abundant 

 in Ireland as is sufficiently shown not only by old records but by 

 the frequency of place-names compoimded with " ure." 



