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About Blennerville, a small suburb, with salt marshes adjoining, were 

 the usual estuary species. Carex mdjjina and BarUiOj imcosa were 

 observed here. Juncus glmieus also occurred sparingly; and along the 

 roadside, Seneliera clidyma, Pcq^aver chihium, and SfeUaria graminea. 



After leaving the road, and crossing muddy dykes and salt 

 marshes amongst Salieornia and Suseda, Sj^eryularia marina and 

 (Enanthe firnj^inelloides, more of the before-mentioned Statice ap- 

 peared in company with Scirpus maritimus. On a ditch bank here 

 I gathered a remarkable Tariety of Rosa canina, erect, closely and 

 desperately prickly, and with very numerous umbellately-arranged 

 flowers, whose petals were deeply bilobed and very red. The leaflets 

 were also unusually large. In a few miles the coast assumed the 

 character of a low turf-bog, stretching along the narrower part of the 

 estuary opposite Fenit. This is the northern margin of the Cahii-- 

 conree range, and the mountain bog plants become oddly mixed with 

 the salt swamp forms. Thus, alongside of Aster trifolium, Armeria 

 onaritima, and Juncus maritimus, occur Ilyrica gale, Anagallis tenella, 

 Eleoclians multicaidis, and the common heathers. Here, too, oKicurred 

 Scirpiis talerncsmontani, a showy plant, and the large tussocky Carex 

 paniculata, and in company with these a rare species, Juncus obtmi- 

 florus. Still keeping through the muddy, slimy, border-land of bog 

 and slob, I met with Eleocliaris imiglumis (a most unsatisfactory spe- 

 cies). Lychnis Jtos-cucidi, Syjoericum elodes, Carex limosa, Rhyncliospora 

 alia, Schenus nigricans, Droseras, and other moor-land plants ; and in 

 the deeper holes occurred Ranuncidus hatidotii, Zannichellia palustris, 

 and Raipina rostellata. About three miles from Camp, Juncus ohtusi- 

 florus occurred again, and with it Carex extensa, sparingly, and Triticum 

 acuta. Camp is a small village, seven, or eight miles west from 

 Tralee, and about a mile from the coast. In these marshes I also 

 gathered Carex dioica, a northern species, which I did not expect to 

 meet with in the extreme south-west of Ireland and at sea level. 

 The northern and north-western portion, of this peninsula, lying along 

 and under the bleak influences of high mountain ranges, affords climate 

 for several surprises of this nature ; and probably in no part of the 

 Eritish islands could a more mixed assortment of plants be found, 

 viewed with regard to their geographical distribution. Osmunda re- 

 galis grows along the ditches here luxuriantly in some places; Uale- 

 naria chlorantlia, Bartsia viscosa, Salix repens, var. argentca, and Viola 

 curtisii were noted; and in the neighbourhood of a rabbit-warren, 

 Cerastium tetranda, C. semidecandrum, Arenaria serpyUifolia, Scilla 

 nutans, and Viola canina occurred. Outside this drier coast of sandy 

 pasture is a shingly beach, and amongst the stones grows the mari- 

 time variety of Solanum dulcamara [S. marinum), a woody, stunted 

 plant, flowering profusely, and with the leaves somewhat glaucous, 

 fleshy, and less divided than in the typical species. It occupied the 

 position which Mertensia maritima would do if occurring. The usual 

 plants, bent-grass, sea-chamomile, and bladder-campion now took the 

 place of the wetter species, and Asjjerula cynancliica, a very characteristic 



