128 June, 



SOME KERRY RUBI. 



BY REGINAI^D W. SCUI.I,Y, F.I^.S. 



In the following list are embodied the results of a good deal 

 of attention given last summer to the Rubi growing within a 

 radius of about seventeen miles from Killarney as centre. 

 Even allowing for the fact that this area includes the best 

 Ruhis ground in the county, the results show that Kerry is 

 probably as rich in the forms of this group as any county in 

 Ireland. Several very promising districts were left quite un- 

 touched, so that the list is by no means a complete one, even 

 for the limited area referred to. As will be seen below, 

 several forms new to Ireland w^ere gathered, while a fairly 

 large number of new district and vice-county records were 

 made. The Rev. W. Moyle Rogers, whose kindness in looking 

 over the whole of the rather bulky gatherings I desire grate- 

 fully to acknowledge, seemed especially interested in the dis- 

 covery^ in Kerr}^ of his R. Briggsia7ius, a well marked and 

 handsome bramble, which was gathered in several localities, 

 and seems to be quite frequent in the count3\ A number 

 of other gatherings have been left over for further material 

 or observation Some of these may be hybrids ; others are 

 perhaps new and undescribed forms. In some of my earlier 

 trips I had the advantage of the Rev.'E. S. Marshall's help, 

 and in the list which follows, plants collected by us when 

 working together, are distinguished by the initials M.S. ; 

 records without initials are my own. 



Additions to District I. of " Cybele Hibernica," 2nd edition, 

 are, as usual; indicated by "I."; those followed by "i" or 

 " 2 " are additions to the Kerry sub-divisions of " Irish Topo- 

 graphical Botany." 



R, subercctus, Anders.— I. i. Rocky islets in the Caragh River, 

 just below Blackstones bridge ; rocky shore of Caragh Lake, below 

 the Southern Hotel. 



R. plicatus, Wh. & N.- I. Frequent about Lickeen and other places 

 in the Glencar valley. Abundant in several places around the 

 shores of the Lower Lake, Killarney, such as swamp near the mouth 

 of the River Deenagh ; M.S. ; north side of Ross bay, &c. 



R. nltldus, Wh. & N., sub-sp. opacus, Focke.— I. i. Stony island 

 in the River Sheen, near Dromanassig bridge, south of Kenmare. 



