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Flor. JSib. Near tlie shore between Dalkey and Bray, and at Lough- 

 linstown {Moore) ; Killiney {Miss M. 0^ Kelly) : Cyl. On the North 

 Bull, Dublin ; More. — YI. Over the whole island of Aranmore : 

 Ogilby 1845. Castle Taylor, Galway : More 18^^. Frequent at 

 intervals from Murrough, south of Black Head, Clare, by BaUy- 

 vaughan round the coast to Kinvarra, Gralway, 1895; N. C. In 

 the Park at Portumna ; and — YII. Eastern shore of Lough Derg 

 {Moore) : Cyh. — VIII. Ashford and Ard near Oughterard, Gralway ; 

 and — IX. Houndswood, Mayo; Miss M. F. Jachson. Shore of 

 Lough Carra, near Moore Hall, Mayo : Ball T8jg. 



2. S. Romanzoffiana Cham. — Irish Lady's Tresses. 



8. gemmvpa/ra Lindl. — Neottia gemmvpa/ra Smith. 



Districts I. — ——— — — — — X. — XII.. 



Lat. 51j-°-55°- Cork, Armagh, and Derry. Type, Hibernian. 



Lowland. Moist pastures and worked-out peat bogs ; very rare. 

 Fl. July-August. 



I. On the strand of the mainland opposite the western redoubt, 

 Bere Island, BantryBay, August, 1810: Brummond 1820 (recorded 

 as a nondescript iV^o^^w). Near Castletown, opposite to Berehaven, 

 1810 {Mr. Brummond) : Fng. Flor., vol. vo., p. j7, 18 jo {aslSfeoUia 

 gemmvpwra). In a rushy meadow sloping to the sea, west of Castle- 

 town {Br. E. P. Wright) : Cyl. In many of the pastures and 

 meadows near Castletown : Rec. Add. In wet rushy ground near 

 Berehaven, about three dozens of specimens, 1891 ; Br. Leiteh. 

 In a damp glen east of Dunmanway, about thirty plants, 1873. 

 {Rev. T. Allin); in the neighbourhood of Desert, 1874 (C. Long- 

 field) : Allin' s Cork. — X. In a wet worked-out bog in the northern 

 part of county Armagh, about a dozen plants, August, 1892 

 {Praeger) : Journ. of Bot. i8ga, p. a'js. By the river Bann at 

 Eilrea, Derry, July, 1893, about half a dozen plants {Mrs. Leebody) : 

 Jr. Nat. i8g3, p. 228. 



Prom the point of view of distribution, this is perhaps the most 

 interesting plant in the flora of the British Isles, since it is found 

 nowhere in Europe outside of Ireland. As 8. gemmipara (Lindl.) 

 it was long considered distinct from 8. Romarhwffiana (Cham.) and 

 peculiar to Ireland, but the two names are now held to refer to the 

 same species, whose extra-European distribution is Kamtschatka,. 

 British North America, and the Northern United States. 



First found by J. Drummond near Castletown Berehaven, in 1 8 1 0. 



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