72 NOTES ON SOME KERRY PLANTS. 



I made my head-quarters at the Muckross Hotel in Cloghereen, 

 a small village about three miles from Killarney on the Glengariffe 

 road, and from this centre explored the three Killarney lakes 

 with their connecting Long Kange, and Loch Guitane, a large lake 

 some three miles to the east of the hotel. On the suggestion of 

 my friend Mr. A. G. More, I provided myself with a long-handled 

 garden rake, and by making extensive use of boats I dragged with 

 this instrument nearly every bay and promising spot in these lakes. 

 In addition to these boating trips, I made my way round the entire 

 Lower Lake, with a shore line of over 20 miles, most of the Middle 

 and part of the Upper Lakes, with numerous excursions into the 

 surrounding bogs and woods. 



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to take each lake, &c, in turn, indicating the more interesting 

 plants as they occur, before combining in a tabular form those 

 which are new to, or rare in, the County Kerry. 



On the 6th July I started for my first trip from the hotel, and 

 noticed on the way to the Muckross boat-house on the Lower Lake, 



Pinr/n?hl/a major, Calumintha officinalis and Cenex divulsa in several 

 places, while in the shrubberies on the right of the roadside Allium 

 Scorodoprasum occurred in one spot. There seems some doubt as 

 to the origin of this plant here, and the presence of Iris fcetidissima 

 (a plant certainly introduced in the west of Ireland, if not in the 

 east) within a few yards of the Allium lends strength to this doubt. 

 Around the boggy margin of the boat-harbour Eleocharis adciUaris 

 grows abundantly ; it occurs again in several spots as far round as 

 the mouth of the River Flesk, being especially abundant near the 

 Cahernane boat-house ; this plant is new to Dist. 1 of the ' Cybele 

 Hibernica. , In a damp copse near the boat-harbour Lastrea 

 Thehjpteris occurs sparingly with Carex vesicaria. After several 

 unsuccessful hauls in the bay just outside our starting-point, the 

 rake came up quite loaded with Nairn flexilis, and looking over the 

 side of the boat I could see this plant growing in great luxuriance 

 in about six feet of water. I found two other stations, some three 

 or four miles apart, for this rare plant. So far, Naias is known 

 from two localities in Kerry; Killarney (first found by Be v. E. F. 

 Linton, Journ. Bot., p. 83,"l886), and Caragh Lake (A. G. More, 

 Journ. Bot., p. 350, 1877). Muckross shore and Castlelough Bay 

 gave Galium boreale on both sides of the Bilrook stream, with Stachys 

 Betonica and many curious creeping forms of Ranunculus Flammuhu 

 Mr. Charles Bailey places the most extreme of my Killarney form 

 near the Ullswater pseiulo-reptans, from which it differs in having 

 almost straight internodes, and in giving out very robust and 

 numerous roots from the nodes ; another of the Killarney forms he 

 places midway between p$mido-reptan$ and tubsrectus. Around tins 

 bay I noted Saponaria officinalis f 1 miculum officinale, and Smyrnh< 

 Olusatntm, the remains of former cultivation. Near Cahernane 

 boat-house Subularia aguatka occurs in great plenty, and near by 

 I gathered SuUaria media var. neyiecta. Ranunculus peltatus seems 

 the commonest of the Killarney Batrachian Banunculi. Off the 

 shore here I found Potamoyeton nitens, previously only known in 



