198 GENTIANE.E. [Menyanthes. 
Mountain, Glenbeigh (R.W.S.), and to the same height on 
the Reeks (Hart). 
First record in 1882: Hart, Proc. R.I.A. 
[PoLeMoniuM c#RULEUM Linn. Jacob’s Ladder.—VIII. 
‘In a meadow near Castleisland” (Dr. Smith) Hist. of 
Kerry, 1756, p. 383, No. 102. No doubt an escape and not 
seen recently in the county except in cottage gardens.] 
BORAGINE?A. 
SYMPHYTUM Linn. 
S. officinale Linn. Comfrey. 
Districts I. I. UW. IV. V. VI. VIL. VIII. IX. 
Denizen. Field-sides, by streams, lake shores, &c. Rare in 
the south, rather common elsewhere. Peren. May— 
August. 
Rare in the following Districts—I. Sparingly near Ken- 
mare east of Cleady, 1903.—II. By the roadside west of 
Kenmare, 1904, and about Castle Cove, Kenmare Bay, 
1907.—III. About Portmagee, Doulus Head, Cahersiveen, 
and near Rossbehy, 1892-1911.—IV. A weed about Church- 
town House, 1904: R.W.S. 
The purple-flowered form—var. PpaTENS Sibth., has been 
noted in many stations especially in the north. 
First record in 1882: Archdeacon Wynne, Journ. Roy. 
Met. Soc., No. 45. ; 
In most of its stations the Comfrey is only a survival of 
past cultivation, but it can claim the rank of denizen on 
river banks and along the shore of the Lower Lake, Killarney, 
especially near the mouth of the Deenagh River, where the 
plant appeared to be thoroughly established in 1910. It 
grew there on the stony shore in great luxuriance and 
abundance among native shrubs and plants, and were it not 
for its standing in the rest of the county and in Ireland 
generally, might pass as an undoubted native in this station. 
It is worthy of note that the Symphytum is still (1911) used 
about Valencia and Cahersiveen as a stupe in cases of strains, 
bruises, &c. (Miss Delap). 
[Borago OFFICINALIS Linn. Borage. This occurs but 
very rarely in the county, and then only as a garden outcast 
or an escape. In addition to its well-known use as an 
