Vol. III. OCTOBER, 1894. No. 10. 



RARE PLANTS IN WEST CORK. 



BY R. A. PHIUJPS. 



During the last fortnight in July, I spent a few days in the 

 neighbourhood of Castletown-Berehaven and Adrigole, with 

 the object of collecting, and to see growing for myself some of 

 the very rare plants which have been recorded from that 

 district. 



On my first day at Castletown I visited the pretty little 

 waterfall of Millcove, about one and a-half miles from the 

 town, and in the wood through which the fall is approached 

 was agreeably surprised to see on a damp spot, a luxuriant 

 patch of Juncus tenuis, Willd. The following day I again 

 found the same plant in a very similar habitat in the 

 woods at Dunboy, about four miles south-west of the last 

 station. In both of these localities the rush grew sparingly. 

 During the next few days I met with it in abundance near 

 Adrigole, about eight miles east of the first station. Here 

 it was not so luxuriant as in the woods, and occurred prin- 

 cipally on damp roadsides, and bare spots by the sides of 

 streams, not in the turf, associated with such plants as 

 Cicendia filiformis, Anthemis ?iobilis, Eufragia viscosa, Scute/- 

 laria minor, Juncus bufonius, andy. lamprocarpiis. 



This is one of the rarest of British plants, and in Ireland 

 has hitherto been known to exist only in a few places along 

 the estuary of the Kenmare River, where it was first found 

 by Mr. R. W. Scully, and it is with much pleasure that I now 

 record it as an addition to the Flora of Co. Cork. 



The other plants which I noticed have all been recorded 

 from the county before, but some of them are new to the 

 Castletown district. Among the more interesting may be 

 mentioned Arbutus Unedo and Trichomanes radica?is, two 

 species which are probably on the eve of extinction in Cork. 

 Of the first I saw seven trees on Adrigole Mountain ; they all 



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