174 COMPOSIT &. (Taraxacum. 
First record in 1756: Dr. Smith, Hist. of Kerry, p. 375, 
No. 25, “‘ On the top of Glenaw mountain near Lough-Lane.” 
Most probably the var. paLustRE DC. 
Var. ERYTHROSPERMUM (Andrz.)—This appears to be not 
uncommon on sandhills and dry banks round the Kerry 
coast. 
Var. patustrE DC.—Common on most of the damp 
mountain cliffs in the county and less frequently at low 
levels, as in Valencia (Rev. S. Madden) Cyb. 1866. About 
Lough Adoon, &c. ; near the base of Connor Hill, &., 1905 : 
RWS. 
Var. upum (Jord.)—IV. In the Gap of Dunloe, and— 
V. about Cloghane and Fermoyle, Brandon Bay ; Castle- 
gregory, &c. (Marshall & Shoolbred) R.W.S. 1903. On 
Connor Hill, 1907: B.W.S. 
LACTUCA Linn. 
L. muralis Linn. Wall Lettuce. 
District — — — — — VWI ~—~ ~~ = 
Alien. In shady places. Very rare and local. Bien.? 
VI. Plentiful over a small area in the pleasure-grounds of 
Glerflesk Castle about two miles south-east of Killarney, 
growing on shady banks, path-sides, walls and outhouses, 
as well as among ornamental shrubs, &c., 1888-1912; 
appears to be spreading there. Several plants on a wall 
beside the Killarney railway station, 1908, and in 1913— 
first appearance here, cerca 1907: R.W.S. 
First record in 1890: R.W.S., Journ. of Bot. 
There can be but little doubt that the Lactuca has been 
introduced in both these Kerry stations. In the grounds at 
Glenflesk Castle there grow in the immediate vicinity of the 
Lactuca such plants as Geranium striatum, Centranthus 
ruber, Linaria Cymbalaria, Poa nemoralis, &c., all of them 
species more or less certainly introduced there. The absence, 
moreover, of this plant from the many suitable localities 
the county affords, as well as its great rarity in Ireland 
generally, all point to the conclusion that it has been 
accidentally introduced in these grounds, probably with 
garden seeds or ornamental shrubs, many years ago. 
Elsewhere in Ireland, the Lactuca occurs sparingly about 
Cork city as an introduction, and in a few of the eastern 
counties, where, however, it is doubtfully native in most, 
if not all, of its stations. 
