160 COMPOSIT A. [Silybum. 
to Ballinprior, 1888-1905 ; sparingly amongst the Ardfert 
ruins, 1907: R.W.S.—IX. On the shore at Beal Point: 
Stewart 1890. About Beal Castle ruins, 1902: R.W.S., and 
in 1913: Phillips. 
First record in 1884: Hart, Proc. R.I.A. 
This handsome plant is never seen at any distance from 
the coast and has its headquarters in the county about 
the north side of Tralee Bay where it appears to be fully 
established. 
SAUSSUREA DC. 
S. alpina DC. 
Districts — — If. IV. V. VI. — — — 
Native. On wet cliffs and grassy slopes on mountains. 
Very rare and local. Peren. August—September. 
III. Sparingly in a rocky gully above Coomacullen Lake, 
at about 1,250 feet, and in plenty on wet grassy slopes from 
1,900 to 2,000 feet between Coomacullen Lake and the 
summit of Coomacarrea Mountain, Glenbeigh, 1892 : Colgan 
& R.W.S.—IV. Cliffs on the north side of Mullaghanattin 
Mountain, Glencar, at about 1,800 feet (Colgan) Dub. Univer. 
Rev. 1886, p. 605.—V. On cliffs near the summit of Brandon, 
1804 : Mackay Rar. On Brandon Mountain, very sparingly, 
1856 (1. Wright) Carroll in Phytol. 1857, p. 76. On Brandon 
on cliffs facing east above Lough Nalacken, abundant here 
from 2,000 to 2,300 feet, but not seen elsewhere: Hart 
1884—seen here as high as 2,800 feet in 1885: Colgan, and 
in 1905: R.W.S.—VI. In the Horse’s Glen, Mangerton 
(Carroll) Cyb. 1866—rather plentiful here in one or two 
spots on grassy slopes in the cliffs to the south of Lough 
Erhagh, 1888, and in 1904: R.W.S. 
Ranges from 1,250 feet on Coomacarrea (Colgan & R.W.S.), 
to 2,800 feet on Brandon (Colgan). 
First found in 1699 by Lhwyd—‘‘ On the mountains of 
Keri.” 
First record in 1712 : Lhwyd, Phil. Trans., Vol. XXVILI., 
. 524. 
. The absence of Saussurea from the many suitable cliffs 
on the Reeks is very hard to account for, as, indeed, is the 
general poverty in alpine plants of this fine range of 
mountains, the loftiest in Ireland. Brandon, although 
lying only fifteen miles further north and much nearer to 
the sea, has nearly double its number of alpine species with 
less than half its extent of cliffs, 
