170 COMPOSIT A. [Hieracium 
Var. oticopon Linton—VI. Abundant on Poulgorm 
bridge and on a rocky island, &c., in the River Clydagh, a 
little above this bridge, upper Glenflesk valley, 1899-1909 : 
R.W.S. 1902 (as H. rigidum Hartm.), and R.W.S. 1904. 
From about 225 to 650 feet beside the Roughty, and to 
300-400 feet by the Clydagh River (R W.S.). 
First record in 1902: R.W.S., Irish Nat. (as H. gothicum 
Fries and H. rigidum Hartm.). 
These Clydagh and Roughty River Hawkweeds have 
proved very troublesome plants to name definitely. At first 
placed under A. gothicum, the Messrs. Linton and Hanbury 
are agreed that they must both be included under H. sparsi- 
folium Lindeb. The Clydagh plant differs from the Roughty 
in the toothing, colour and width of the leaves, as well as 
in several other particulars, and the Rev. W. R. Linton in 
his British Hieracia 1905, p. 78, has described it as a new 
variety under the name oligodon. In this same work, the 
Co. Donegal H. sparsifolium has been transferred to H. 
stictophyllum Dahlst., so that, as at present known, H. 
sparsifolium Lindeb. appears to be confined in Ireland to the 
Kerry localities given above. 
[H. viztosum Linn. “Shaggy Alpine Hawkweed. Moist 
rocks on Magilly-cuddy’s reeks, county of Kerry ” : Mackay 
Rar. 1806. No member of the Alpina group of Hawkweeds 
is known to occur in Kerry, and only one, indeed, in the 
whole of Ireland. The only Hieracium (other than H. 
Pilosella) as yet seen on the Reeks is H. anglicum, so it is 
reasonable to assume that this was the plant found by 
Mackay ; he has elsewhere recorded Leontodon autumnalis 
var. pratensis (Koch) from this range, which excludes that 
plant as a possible source of confusion. ] 
[H. gotuicum Fries.—I. Roughty River: R.W.S. 1902-- 
was H. sparsifolium Lindeb., vide sup. H. RIgipuM 
Hartm.—VI. Poulgorm bridge, &c., Clydagh valley : R.W.S. 
1902—was H. sparsifolium, var. oligodon Linton, vide sup.] 
[H. BoREALE Fries.—I. Roughty River above Kilgarvan 
(R.W.S.) Cyb. 1898—was H. Scullyi Linton, vide sup.— 
VI. ‘This species of Hieracium, sometimes mistaken for 
Hieracium umbellatum . . . . among the rocks near the 
south side of Ross, Killarney, and near the cultivated part of 
the island to the left as you enter it, flowering in July”: 
Wade Rar. 1804, and “ Ross Island, Killarney ; where it had 
