508 APPENDIX. {Lwmthacea. 



L ORANTEA CEM. 



Viscum album Linn. — Mistletoe. 

 V. Found on a crab tree at Island Bridge : Rutty^s Dublin, I'j'js. 

 " Grows on an old apple tree in the physicians garden of tlie Old 

 Man's Hospital, KilmaLaliam. Uy wtiat I could learn, tlie apple 

 tree on which it grows was brought from England " : WaAe Ra/r. — 

 IX. " In Betulis, Castle-mac-Grarrett, tantum " : Brown Fasciculus, 

 1788. 



ITowhere native in Ireland and extremely rare as a casual 

 introduction. In the Castle-mac-Garrett station, Co. Mayo, it is 

 probable that Brown mistook for mistletoe the bushy, nest-Hke 

 excrescence so frequent on the birch. Dr. Molyneux, in Threlkeld's 

 Synopsis, 1727, states that he could never meet with the mistletoe 

 in Ireland. 



EUPSOBBIA CE^. 



Euphorbia Cyparissias Linn. 

 VII. In a lane near Horse Leap, Clara, King's Co. {Miss M. 

 Gooihody): Ir. Nat. i8g3, p. 250. — VII. In a plantation neai- 

 Derrynagease Point, Lough Ree, Co. Longford, introduced : B.^V. 

 i88'j.—JJl. Crawfordsbum : Flor. TJlst. 



Euphorbia Lathyris Linn. — Caper Bpm-ge. 

 XII. By the side of an old road near Cammoney: Flor. JJlst. 

 Introduced at Ballytweedy {Rev. W. S. Smith) : Flor. N.-E. 



Both species are in all cases planted or escaped from cultivation. 



VRTICAGEM. 



Ulmus suberosa Ehrh. — Common Elm. 

 Occurs in hedges and thickets throughout Ireland, but is very rai'ely 

 found in wild-looking stations and appears to be planted in aU 

 cases.- According to Hooker {Student's Flora, ^rd Ed., p. 362) this 

 species never seeds in Great Britain. 



Urtioa piluUfera Linn. 

 I. " Sent to me from Ballylickey by Miss Hutchins " : Mach. Cat. 

 At Glaiidore and Deny, Carbery {R. W. Townsend) : Flor. Cork.— 

 V. By a ruined cottage on Howth Head : Journ. of Bot. i8gi, 

 P- 377- 



A casual. 



