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that it is " nearly, if not quite, exterminated in the 

 districts of Ivillarney and the Eeeks." Unfortunately it 

 acquired a money value, and, wherever it could be 

 obtained, the people of the locality earned a few shillings 

 by selling it to tourists, not one in twenty of whom would 

 be able to grow it when they had it. It is sad to think 

 that so interesting a plant should be doomed to extinction 

 to satisfy an ignorant and stupid cupidity. There was a 

 dying specimen in the inn at Cloghaue, which had evidently 

 been quite recently gathered in the neighbourhood, and 

 which a poor attempt was made to grow under impossible 

 conditions. Xo plant of Trichomanes, except that seen at 

 Lough Cruttia, was observed by any member of the Club 

 during the expedition, but doubtless a good many isolated 

 plants still occur, scattered here and there over the vast 

 mountainous region of Kerry. The guide indicated one 

 other spot, at some distance from the Lough, where he said 

 it was to be found. 



The only other plant particularly noteworthy found in 

 the neighbourhood of Cloghane, was the rare Sihthorpia 

 eurojxva, L, which was observed growing on the roadside 

 near Kilcummin, on a bare, moist, almost vertical bank. 

 In Ireland this plant is confined to the Dingle peninsula. 



Other plants seen by Messrs. Evans and Paul, and not 

 already mentioned as occurring at Ivillarney or Kenmore, 

 were Altluea officinalis, L. (probably a garden escape) ; 

 Samolus Valcrandi, L. ; Pulicaria dysentcrica, Gfertn. ; and 

 Viola tricolor, var. Curtisii, Forst. 



Making an early start on Saturday morning, these two 

 members of the Club journeyed back by Tralee and 

 Killarney to rejoin the others at Kenmare, which they 

 reached at midday, only regretting that their stay amid 

 the romantic scenery of Clogliane had been so brief. 



The same day the whole party drove in the afternoon 

 from Kenmare to Parknasilla, near Sneem, along a road 

 which presented at every turn fine views of the mountains 

 and of the picturesque estuary. The commonest plants by 

 the wayside were Ulcx Gallii, Planch, and Anthcmis nohilis, 

 L., the latter in great profusion. As we drove along, 

 Messrs. Cowan and Boyd were each fortunate enough to 

 find an interesting variety of the Poyal fern, amid the 



