354 LILIACEJE. \_Aspwragus^ 



about lialf way between Crossf amoge and Bannow ; and at Bannow 

 Island, Wexford : Hart 1883 /S. 



Threlkeld, in his Synopsis, says: "It grows upon tbe Sea-coaets. 

 and sometimes comes to Town [Dnblin] for Litter to Goods upon 

 Carrs." 



First recorded by Smith, from Tramore, in 1746. 



SIMETHI8 Kunth. 



1. S. bicolor Kuntb — Variegated SimetMs. 



Districts I. — — — — — — — — — — — 



Lat. 51° 46'. South- West, Kerry only. Type, Local- Atlantic. 



Lowland. Bushy and grassy places, and in rock-clefts, near the 

 sea ; very rare. JFl. May. 



I. HiUs near Derrynane Abbey, Kerry [on the Abbey Island] 

 {Sev. T. O'Mahony) : London Jowrn. of Bot. vii., p. ^'ji. On the 

 mainland a little west of Derrynane {Br. E. P. Wright) : Cyh. 

 "West side of the Abbey Island, Derrynane ; head opposite Kid's 

 island, north of Derrynane ; Lamb's Head, south of Derrynane ; in 

 many places by the shore of Kenmare Eiver to eight or nine miles 

 east of Derrynane ; and about a mile inland, four miles east of' 

 Derrynane : R. W. S. i8go ^ gi. 



One of the rarest plants in the Irish flora. Eanges on the 

 Continent from Western France by Northern Spain and Portugal 

 eastward along the Mediterranean to Corsica and west Italy. 

 Eeaches its northern limit for Europe in Kerry, about one degree of 

 latitude north of its only English station, near Boxu-nemouth in 

 Dorset, where it has, perhaps, become extinct. 



First found in Ireland by the Eev. T. O'Mahony in 1848. 



ALLIUM Linn. 

 1. J A. Babingtonii BoiTer — Bulb-hearing Leek. 



A. Ampeloprasum Var. Babingtonii Hook. — A. Sailer i Bab. 



Districts — VI. — YIII. XL — 



Lat. 53°-65°. West Ireland, Galway, Mayo, and Donegal. 



Lowland. Rock-clefts, sandy places, and cultivated land near 

 the coast; rare. Fl. June-July. 



VI. In the South Isles of Aran (Messrs. Thomson Sf Ball) : Flor. 

 Hit. (as A arenarium). Near Kilronan, Aranmore, and scattered 



