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peculiarities from seed. Else some individuals of it ought to have 

 formed little patches, just as the typical G. uliginosmn did. 



It now remains to sow seeds of the supposed variety, and grow 

 them on damp soil : if they then produce their like, some other 

 explanation must be sought. But, until this is done, I shall 

 look upon G-. pilulare as a state of uUginosum produced by local 

 conditions of dry soil and climate, and by which only one seedling 

 out of hundreds is affected so as to produce achenes with hair-like 

 papillae. Has any botanist met with jnlidare year after year in the 

 same locality in both wet and dry seasons ? 



FUKTHEE NOTES ON THE KERRY FLORA. 

 By Reginald W. Scully. 



In the list which follows I have included the more interesting 

 plants found during a trip to Kerry last summer. The ground gone 

 over was too varied for detailed description ; ten days were, however, 

 spent in the neighbourhood of Killorglin, near the mouth of the 

 Laune, a river well known as draining the Lakes of Killarney. 

 Killorglin is now connected by rail with Killarney, and forms a good 

 centre for a district hitherto apparently neglected by botanists. 

 Trips were also made to Castlegregory and Kerry Head, the latter 

 a remote and very exposed district. Another day was spent 

 examining the Slieve Mish Mountains, and finally, the neighbour- 

 hood of Killarney and Tralee were further explored with good results. 



Perhaps the most interesting plant found was Carex aquatilis. 

 It grew along the banks of a small stream that enters Caragh Lake 

 near the head, and on the west side of that lake. This extends the 

 southern range of this plant to just 52°, and is especially interesting 

 as increasing the group of such northern plants as Scirpus rufuSf 

 Listera cordata, Carex dioica, Poa alpina, &c., which find their 

 southern British limit in Kerry. Three counties are now known 

 in Ireland for this Carex — Roscommon, Donegal, and Kerry. 

 It seems strange, as Mr. Bennett points out (Journ. Bot. 1889, 

 p. 27), to find this northern plant absent from Dr. Lange's new 

 edition of the ' Danish Flora,' seeing it ranges from N. to S. Ireland. 

 Another station was discovered for C. Boenninghauseyiiana, its 

 second, I think, in Ireland ; while C. muricata, C. limosa, and G. 

 punctata were also found in new localities. Few counties are better 

 represented in this family, though C. muricata seems very rare here, as 

 indeed throughout Ireland; while C. disticha is, so far, a desideratum. 

 Kerry, however, furnishes several other instances of the kind — 

 Anthriscus sylvestris and Fimpmella Saxifraga, for instance, are both 

 desiderata in my Kerry lists ; the latter is the more surprising, as 

 the extensive limestone tracts would seem to offer it a suitable 

 habitat, and the closely- allied Pimpinella major is widely spread 

 through the county. 



