5^. THK ,)OLI{.\.U, Ul" noTANV. 



species in Kerry ; and its discovery by Mr. R. Lloy .1 Praeger on Clai'e: 

 Island, Co. Mayo, suggests that it may have died out in other parts of 

 western Ireland. S. atf^llaris is considered to be the most common 

 alpine plant in the county, descending to less than 450 feet. 



The account of the Hypnoid Saxifrages is too vague. They are 

 all here grouped undei" S. decipiens, which Ehrhart failed to describe, 

 though he issued it as No. 5 of his Exsiccata ; S. rosacea Moench 

 appears to be the valid name. It does grow ver^^ sparingly on 

 Brandon Mountain, and probably elsewhere ; but the prevailing Kerry 

 species is S. hirta Sm. This has been strangely confused with 

 <S\ Sfenihe,'(f{i Willd., the typical form of which occurs on and near 

 the top of Brandon. What has been named S. (jroeiilaudica L. by 

 Engler from Kerry does not agree with the figure and description of 

 Dillenius"s SdxiJ'nn^a tridnciylites groenlandlca (on which the 

 Linnean sj^ecies was l)ased), in the Rorfus Elthamensis ; it is S. iu- 

 i-urvifolhi D. Don, apparently confined to Ireland. I have had these 

 three lirandon ])lants in cultivation for over five years, together with 

 Mr. Praeger's Clare Island S. rosacea ; thev keep thoroughly distinct, 

 in all stages of growth. S. ajjinis D. Don does not seem to have been 

 met with recently in its original station ; and true S. hypnoides L. is 

 absent from KeiTV. 



Nvphar infermedinm Ledebour is recorded from one locality 

 (Lough Acoose, Glencar), and has also been obtained in Westmeath ; 

 Caspary considered this to be a hybrid between N. hifeum and N. pu- 

 viilum, which is not Irish. Arabis ciliata Br., to be found on nearly 

 all the sandhills and sandy pastures of the Kerry coast, is ably and 

 impartially discussed ; the author, after many years' observation, 

 inclines to consider it as an extreme sea-side variety of A. hirsnia. 

 I have seen them growing together, but failed to find any connecting 

 links, unless A. ciliata var. hispida can be regarded as such. Coch- 

 learia (/roenlandica L. has been found up to 700 feet on Slievedonagh, 

 and on the Great J^lasket Island ; one would hardly have expected it 

 so far south. Viola lactea is placed under V. canina as a variety ; 

 but the hybrids between them are always sterile. Ononis repens, 

 regarded by Mr. Scully as only doubtfully native, occurs usually as the 

 spinous form — var. horrida Lange ; but this is a sea-side plant, not 

 \L'Y\ likely to be introduced. Lafhynts maritimus and Diofis are 

 extinct. " The famous Fuchsia bush at Glanleam, Valencia, had in 

 1905 a circumference of 9S yards {Miss Dehrp) : this represents the 

 growth of one original bush, although its branches have now rooted 

 all round, forming one dense mass." Arbatus^ Holly, and other trees 

 fonnerly suffered much, being used as charcoal for smelting. Ufricii- 

 laria Brent ii, collected by Mr. Druce in the Gap of Dunloe, 1875 — 

 the first flowering specimens known from the British Isles — is vouched 

 for by Professoi' Gliick. Scutellaria galericulata x minor has been 

 observed near Kenmare, and is frequent about the Killarney lakes. 

 Euphorbia hi hern a " is no doubt one of the survivors of the Lusi- 

 tanian invasion which reached Ireland probably in pre-glacial times ; " 

 all the districts produce it in greater or less quantities. Spiranthes 

 liomanzqffiana has a station only a few miles over the Cork lx)undarv, 

 and should be scarchccl for in Kcrrv. Eliamn nnfnna is entcrc^d on 



