Cuscita.] CONVOLVULACEAE. 203 
First record in 1888: R.W.S., Journ. of Bot. 
This plant appears to be a comparatively recent arrival 
in its Castlegregory station ; it was not there in 1894 when 
the locality was closely examined. The neighbourhood is 
well known throughout the county for its early and excellent 
crops, and a large amount of seed is annually imported, 
with which the Cuscuta most probably arrived. It grows 
here in dense circular red patches, two or three yards in 
diameter, which were conspicuous from a considerable 
distance. In the Banna station the plant when first seen 
was in much smaller quantity and growth, and quite easy 
to overlook ; cultivation in this locality does not occur to 
any considerable extent and its presence there is difficult 
to account for. The two stations lie about ten miles apart on 
opposite sides of the more open portion of Tralee Bay. 
(C. Eprraymum Murray.—VIII. Banna, north-west of 
Ardfert, 1887 (R.W.S.) Topog. Bot. Now transferred to 
C. Trifolii, vide supra.] 
SOLANACEA. 
SOLANUM Linn. 
S. Dulcamara Linn. Bittersweet. 
Districts [I.] IT. WT. — V. VI. VI. VII. IX. 
Native. Stony sea shores, hedges, bushy places and on walls. 
Rather common by the sea, very rare inland. Peren. June— 
September. 
{I. Planted about cottages near Kilgarvan, 1904, and in 
the Roughty valley, 1909 : R.W.S.].—VI. On a wall between 
Killarney and Muckross (H. N. Ridley) Journ. of Bot. 1884, 
p. 91—-still in one or two spots on walls by the Muckross road 
about a mile from Killarney, but very sparingly ; on walls 
and in a shrubbery near Killarney railway station ; sparingly 
in a swampy wood in the Home Park, and rather plentiful in 
a roadside hedge near Aghadoe House west of Killarney, 
1889-1914 ; sparingly near Ballymalis Castle near the River 
Laune, 1890-1902 : R.W.S.—VII. In one spot at Milltown 
and sparingly by the road between Milltown and Castle- 
maine, 1905: Capt. Creaghe-Haward. Sparingly by a wall 
in the “ Green,” Tralee, 1914; sparingly on walls about 
Fenit House and on houses near the pier, 1887-1914: 
R.W.S.—IX. On walls about Listowel, 1913: Phillips. 
