350 OECHIDE^. 



Thig- and the preceding species -were not sufficiently distinguished 

 in many of the older records, hut recent ohservation proves them to 

 he hoth widespread in Ireland,, though unequally distributed in 

 many districts. 



OEDEE LXVI.— IRIDEiE. 



lEIS Linn. 

 1. *I. foetidissima Linn. — Gladdon; Stinking Iris. 



Districts I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. — IX. X. XI. XH. 



Lat. 52°-55J°- Throughout Ireland, almost. Type, English. 



Hedge-banks, thickets, fields, &c. ; rare and nowhere native. 

 Fl. June-July. 



I. Mucruss, Killamey {Admiral Jones) : Cyl. Still in Muck- 

 ross shrubberies in 1897; R.W. S. — II. Ifaturalized on limestone 

 rocks at Grlanworth, Eermoy {T. Chandlee) : Cyh. — III. Field 

 between Ballybracken and Kilkenny : Mack. Rwr. Banks of the 

 Barrow near Portarlington : Flor. Rib. — IV. At Eassaro, south of 

 Bray: Wade Rwr. At Tythewer, "Wicklow: Ir. Flor. — V. Ire- 

 land's Eye and Howth : Wade Rwr. 1804. — stOl on Ireland's Eye, 

 1882; N. C. Dalkey; KiUineyBay; Tagony; and abundantly at 

 Scholarstown : Ir. Flor. ClLEEs on Lambay Island, looking native : 

 Hart 188 J y. Abundant at Grreenflelde, Howth : Flor. Howth,. In 

 Narraghmore wood ; on a ditch-bank by the road of BaUykUlane, 

 Kildai-e ( Cwrroll) : Cyh. — VI. In Ennis chui-chyard, Co. Clare : 

 Wade Rwr. Margin' of Ballycar Lake, near Ennis, looking native : 

 Stewart i8go. Eocky fields near MuiTough, Black Head, Clare, 

 1895; P. B. 0' Kelly— Yll. By a road a little east of Edenderry 

 towards Eathangan, naturalized {Prof. Melville) : Cyh. — IX. By 

 the river at Dalgan near Shrule, Co. Mayo ; Miss M. F. Jackson. — 

 X. At Tartaraghan, Armagh {Stewart); hedge-bank in Armagh 

 Palace demesne : Praeger iSg^. — XL Abundantly established at 

 Brown HaU ; well established in thickets by the sea at EathmuHan 

 House : Hwrt 1880 ^ 1886. Plentiful on a ditch bank at Culmore, 

 Derry {Moore): CoTby z,?^^.— XII. "Woods at Grey Abbey; along 

 the river below Newcastle, Down: Ir. Flor. Naturalized near 

 Coleraine {Moore): Cyh. Plentiful in a meadow by the stone 

 cashel at Cushendun : B. N. F. C. Proc, 1884. 



No doubt in all cases a relic of ancient cultivation. 



