110 PLANTS FOUND IN KERRY. 



L. cemuum L. — Near the summit of the Owen Stanley range. 

 ("Warmer regions of both hemispheres). 



L. clavatum L. — Mount Musgrave and near the summit of the 

 Owen Stanley range. (Cosmopolitan ; temperate). 



L. Wightianum Wall. — Mount Knutsford and near the summit 

 of the Owen Stanley range.) Neilgberries, Ceylon, Java). Doubt- 

 fully distinct from L. alpinum. 



L. scariosum Forst. — Mount Knutsfurd. (New Zealand, Aus- 

 tralian Alps, Tropical America). 



L. votubUe Forst. — Mount Musgrave. (Penang to New Zealand 

 and Polynesia). Not included in the new set of specimens. 



Selaginellace.e. 

 Selaginella latifolia Spring. ? — Mount Musgrave. (Ceylon to 

 Polynesia). 



Equisetace.e. 



Equisetum debile Roxb. — Mount Knutsford, teste Sir F. Mueller. 

 (India to Fiji). 



It will be seen the number of species of Vascular Cryptogamia 

 collected during the expedition was 70, and that of these 20 

 appear to be new and endemic. It is probable that, as Baron von 

 Mueller suggests, some of these came from a lower level than the 

 64 flowering plants dealt with in his paper. The proportion 

 of novelties is, as might be expected, smaller in the ferns than in 

 the flowering plants, but to get so many new species as the result 

 of a single hurried visit, makes one expect great things when these 

 mountains can be explored more leisurely. As will be seen, most 

 of the fifty species already known are familiar characteristically 

 Malayan and Polynesian types. Cosmopolitan temperate types 

 are represented by HymenophyWwm tunbridgense, Aspidium aculeatum, 

 Nephrodium Filix-mas and Lycopodium clavatum. In Lycopodiaceas 

 Lycopodium Hamiltonii is a characteristically Indian, and L. variuni 

 a characteristically Australian and New Zealand species. 



PLANTS FOUND IN KERRY, 1889. 



By Reginald W. Scully, F.L.S. 



Most of the time I devoted to Kerry last summer was spent in 

 the southern or mountainous portion of the county, several weeks 

 being divided between Glencar Valley, Waterville and its vicinity, 

 and Kenmare Bay, more especially its northern side. A short 

 visit was also paid to Ballybunnion, a small seaside village lying 

 in the northern or comparatively level portion of Kerry. These 

 districts would repay further search, and I can only hope that other 

 botanists may be tempted to explore the more remote portions of 

 this and other Irish counties where much, I am sure, still remains 

 to be done. 



