Hieracium.} COMPOSIT A. 169 
plants seen, which varied in number from about two dozen 
at the most, to half that quantity when last seen in 1906. 
Although it has successfully held it ground for at least 
nineteen years, its continued existence is of a most precarious 
nature. It grows scattered over a flower-bed amongst 
Alyssums and other cultivated flowers, and is quite at the 
mercy of any gardener devoid of botanical reverence. 
As there is no other locality known for this plant nearer 
than Cahir, Co. Tipperary, fully eighty miles distant, H. 
sciaphilum, even more than H. serratifrons, must rest under 
the gravest suspicion of having been accidentally introduced 
into the county, most probably with flower seeds. 
H. Scullyi Linton. 
District TO —- -— ~— ~— ~— ~~ ~~ = 
Native. Rocky river-banks and on a bridge. Very rare 
and local. Peren. July—August. 
I Sparingly on rocks by the Roughty River, both above 
and below Morley’s Bridge, 1894-1913 (R.W.S.) Cyb. 1898 
(as H. boreale Fries). Abundant on Drohidnagower bridge 
about two miles lower down the same river and sparingly 
on rocks both above and below this bridge, 1894-1913: 
R.W.S. 
First found in 1894, and recorded in Cyb. 1898: R.W.S., 
as H. boreale Fries ; described as a new species by the Rev. 
W. R. Linton in British Hieracia, 1905, p. 72. 
This Hawkweed, at present believed to be peculiar to 
Kerry, is a handsome tall-growing species with a leafy stem 
frequently attaining two feet in height; it appears to be 
the only member of the Alpestria section as yet recorded 
among the Irish Hieracia. Except in one spot where it is 
plentiful, it is but thinly scattered along two miles or so of 
the Roughty River, and until further investigation has led 
to its discovery elsewhere it is hoped that collectors will be 
sparing in their gatherings of this local and easily exter- 
minated plant. ' 
H. sparsifolium Lindeb. 
Districts I. — — — — VI — — — 
Native. About rocky rivers and on bridges. Very rare and. 
local. Peren. June—July. 
I. Rather sparingly in several spots along the Roughty 
River, both above and below Morley’s Bridge, 1899-1913 : 
R.W.S. 1902 (as H. gothicum Fries) ; sparingly on rocks in 
the same river about half a mile south of Sillahertane, upper 
Roughty valley, 1904; RWS, 
