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REAPPEARANCE OF LATHYRUS MARITIMUS 



IN KERRY. 



BY REGINALD W. SCULLY, F.L.S. 



The great rarity of the Sea Pea in Ireland and its 

 disappearance from its only known station, the Castlemaine 

 sand-hills of Kerry, for a period of almost three quarters 

 of a century are enough to warrant more than a bald record 

 of its reappearance there in the present year. 



On July 28 last I was very agreeably surprised to receive 



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The Editors and Publishers regret the unavoidable 

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cliffs of rocks, and among pebbles where no earth is seen 

 to give them nourishment, for the roots run to a great 

 depth, to find the earth. In tim^es of scarcity of provisions 

 they have afforded great relief to the people of England, 

 who lived near the sea coast, and who having never observed 

 it, till necessity sent them to its stores, they then thought 

 it was sent by miracle for their support." 



The second notice occurs in a " Catalogue of Rare 

 Plants found in Ireland," published in 1806 by that 

 distinguished Irish botanist, James Townsend Macka}'. 

 He there states " I found this [Lathy rus maritinius on the 

 sandhills, bay of Castlemain in August, 1804." Mr. William 

 Andrews appears to have been the next to gather the 



