1908. SCULI.Y. — Notes 071 the Kerry Flora. 51 



for, its continued isolation in this locality is even more so. 

 The hard nuts and prickly clinging stems would seem to lend 

 themselves most readily as means of dispersal both here and 

 elsewhere, but during the nineteen years this Polyg07ittvi has 

 been under my observation, no appreciable difference has 

 been noted in its local distribution, nor has it apparently been 

 carried to any of the numerous bogs and swamps in the 

 neighbourhood. 



I notice in Mr. Druce's account of his visit to this locality 

 that he speaks of his vasculum as being " full" of this plant. 

 I can onl}' hope his vasculum was a small one ; to my own 

 knowledge, however, on two occasions at least, visitors have 

 filled vasculums of ver}^ considerable dimensions with this 

 Polygonum^ and I would earnestly ask botanists visiting Kerry 

 to be sparing in their gathering of this and other easily 

 exterminated rarities. 



In the following list, additions to District I. of Cybele 

 Hiberfiica, 2nd edition, are indicated as usual bj' " I.," while 

 records followed by i or 2 are additions to the Kerry sub- 

 divisions oi Irish lopooj-aphical Bota7iy. 



*DlpIotaxis muralis, DC— Sparingly at the foot of a wall near 

 Fenit pier, Tralee bay, 1906. This plant has probablj- come to stay 

 in Kerry, as it appears to be increasing in its Ballyheigue station 

 recorded in Irish Nat., 1903, p. 114. Although so fond of railway 

 banks and tracks, it has not so far been seen in such situations in the 

 county. 



tCramtoe marltima, Linn 2. About a dozen fine plants scattered 



along the stony margin of the beach west of the Spa, Tralee bay, 

 1905. They were not there a few years previously, but appear to be 

 , well established now ; it is quite possible, however, that they may 

 have originated from garden outcasts. Dr. Smith in his ' History of 

 Kerry " records *' sea coleworts " as occurring in the county near the 

 head of the Kenniare river as long ago as 1756, but no plants have 

 been seen in his locality in recent j-ears. 



Trifolium arvense, Linn. — i. In some plenty ou rocks and rocky 

 ground about Foilhomurrum near Bray Head, Valencia Island, 1907 ; 

 Miss Wooton. This is a most welcome addition to the Kerry flora. 

 Miss Delap, to whom I already owe several additions to the local 

 flora, was kind enough to send me fresh specimens of this clover 

 gathered in Miss Wooton's locality. 



Rubus sulcatus, Vest. — I. i. Rather sparingly in a damp, rocky wood 

 by the River Sheen, south of Keumare. This appears to be the first 

 Irish record for this plant. 



R. incurvatus, Bab I. i. River side near Blackstones, Gleucar. 



