Iris.} lEIDE^. 361 



2. Iris Pseud-acorus Linii. — Yellow Flag. 



Hibernici Gleapcjiom {Ellis-thrvm) ; Seilipcpom {ShelUs-thrum). 

 Districts I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. 

 Lat. 51J°-55i°- Throughout Ireland. Ti/jpe, British. 



Marshy places, wet meado-ws, &c. ; common. Fl. June-July. 



Sea-level in Derry and in S. Cork. To 1100 ft. in SHgo(i\^. C). 



In the Journal of Botamy, i8gi, p. 304, Mr. D. Druce states 

 that the only form of this plant seen by him in South Cork and 

 !Kerry was the Var. acoetfoiimis [Borewu). 



SISTEIFCHIUM Linn. 

 1. fS. angustifolium MUl. — Blue-eyed Grass. 



S. anceps Cav. — S. Bermudiana Linn. 



Districts I. — — — — VI. — — — — — — 



Lat. 51|-°-53°. Kerry, Cork, and G-alway only. 



Lowland. Moist pastures and meadows, and hoggy and heathy 

 places ; very rare. Fl. June-July. 



I. In a pasture near a planted copse north-east of MiLLtown, 

 Kerry {Lad/y Godfrey') ; also near Lough Dromin, a mile and a half 

 south-west of Milltown {Rev. A. Isaac) : Journ. of Bot. 1882, p. 8. 

 StUl at Milltown in 1890, extending over a Kmited area ; also found 

 in the same year along the river Laune near Killorglin, apd ahove 

 Aughils, west of Castlemaine : B. W. S. i8gi. On damp rocks by 

 the sea about three miles north-west of Cahirciveen, Kerry, 1892 ; 

 jB. W. S. Near Bere Haven, BantiyBay, Cork, 1854 (T. C. Fyton) : 

 Serb. Bot. Soey. Edin. Ardnacashel, Bantry Bay, 1887 {Miss 

 Alicia Sutchins) : Serl. R. P. Vowell. Near the edge of a bog 

 ditch a mile east of Gortnavalig House, between the sea and the 

 coach- road from Bantry to Glengarifi, 1896 ; Miss Lena Gyles. — 

 VI. " Communicated by the Eev. H. L. Jenner by whom it has 

 been received as an indigenous Irish plant collected in a wood near 

 "Woodford, Co. Galway"; Rep. of Proc. of Bot. 80c. Zand. : Phytol. 

 ii., p. goo, 1846. "Gathered in. a a coarse meadow half a mUe 

 north of the village of Woodford, near Loughrea, in great quantity, 

 and on the race-course near that village, and also in a coarse 

 meadow near the police barrack in Eossmore ... by James Lynam, 

 Esq., who sent me [MackayJ specimens in Sept. 1847 " : Machwy 

 i8sg. Abundant in marshy meadows and pastures along both sides 



