174 NOTES ON MOUNTAIN PLANTS IN KERRY. 



communicates to the author or editor of a systematic work, or 

 illustrated publication, a generic or specific name in advance of his 

 own publication. Are such names, in subsequent citations, to be 

 " individuahsed by the addition of the name of the author who 

 publishes them, notwithstanding the contrary indication which he 

 may have given ? " Shall we not rather say that the namer was 

 pubhshed through the agency of the author to show he made this 

 contribution ? Again, the elder DeCandoUe, in the preface to the 

 first volume of the ' Prodromus ' and elsewhere, solicited contri- 

 butions, engaged to publish them under the contributor's name, 

 and uniformly did so, unless there was imperative reason to the 

 contrary. With this understanding Nuttall, for example, contri- 

 buted specimens with names of his new genera of Umhellifera, and 

 DeCandolle published them for him. It is not conceivable that the 

 later editor of the ' Prodromus ' ever intended Art. 50 to operate 

 "contrary to the indication" that his father had given. 



The governing principle here applied — that of accurate citation 

 of the record — goes against all loosely constructive publication, 

 such as that of supposing that an author, in renaming a genus or 

 restoring some overlooked name, has thereby published the names 

 of species which he has not mentioned, and whose perhaps multi- 

 farious synonymy he has not adjusted. 



The same principle should be controlling in a different case, 

 which is also discussed in the article in your Journal for April. 

 The first edition of the ' Hortus Kewensis ' is properly cited as Ait. 

 Hort. Kew., although the Banksian Herbarium confirms the tra- 

 dition that it is scientifically the work of Solander. But there is 

 no proper ground for recognising this in citations, so long as his 

 name nowhere appears in the publication, although most of the 

 new species are ticketed by him in the Herbarium as " Soland. MS." 

 The same applies to Kichard in his relation to Michaux's Flora, 

 in respect to w^hicli even the Herbarium is also silent. It would 

 equally govern the well-known contributions of Eobert Brown to 

 the second edition of the ' Hortus Kewensis,' notwithstanding their 

 posthumous collection in Brown's works, except for their early and 

 general recognition as Brown's (doubtless at his own instance) in 

 standard systematic works. 



NOTES ON MOUNTAIN PLANTS IN KERRY. 



By H. C. Hart, B.A. 



Baurtregaun, 2796 feet, is the highest point of the Caher Conree 

 or Sheve Mish Mountains, a ridge lying between Tralee Bay and 

 Castlemaine Harbour, and running north and south across the neck 

 of the Dingle promontory, which rises farther west to 3126 feet 

 at Brandon. The geological structure of these mountains is of 

 sandstones and schists of the Old Red Sandstone period ; beneath 

 these, on the southern face, a series of Silurian fossihferous lime- 

 stones is exposed in several places. 



