NOTES ON SOME KERRY PLANTS. 73 



Ireland from another Kerry station, Castlegregory. Mr. Arthur 

 Bennett, who has kindly looked over some of my plants, considers 

 the Killarney nitens to be midway between the type and var. 

 curvifolzus. At the mouth of the Flesk, Subularia again occurs 

 with Wahlmbergia hederacea, stunted but plentiful, and Carum 

 verUcillatiun sparingly. Growing here in the river were some 

 curious forms of Alisma Plantago ; a small tuft of subulate leaves 

 with several long filiform stems springing directly from this tuft 

 and ending in a small ovate floating leaf. The Mine holes on Boss 

 Island gave me a most interesting series of these forms, which 

 probably have been often mistaken in Ireland for Alisma nutans. 

 Radiola linoides occurs in sandy hollows at Tan-hole Bay, and 

 Lathma Squanmria in the woods on Ross Island, which here forms 

 one side of this bay. Neither Wahlenberyia nor Lathma have been 

 previously recorded from Kerry. The Mine holes on Boss Island 

 yielded Sparganium minimum, more Potamogetens nitens, and a fine 

 selection of the various forms of Alisma repens. "Within a few feet 

 of each other were growing the submerged form with grass-like 

 leaves and creeping suckers, the form in a few inches of water 

 where these grass-like leaves are supplemented by a few others 

 which reach the surface and give out narrow floating leaves, pass- 

 ing into typical Alisma repeiis, which also grows here and elsewhere 

 in great profusion on the muddy slopes of the pools. Around grow 

 men* maritima and Armeria maritima, a well-known instance of 

 maritime plants surviving far inland not many feet above sea-level. 

 Round the shores of Ross Island, Elutine hexandra occurs in nearly 

 every suitable bay ; in fact this is a very common plant in all three 

 lakes and in the Long Range. Hieracium pallidum and Galium 

 boreai ey the latter very luxuriant, occur here on the shores with 



Rkarnwu catharticm Ovohanche Ihdera and Cultha palwtris var. 



(*urrawferii. In Ross Bay the rake brought to the surface Nma$ 

 flexUis in several spots along the south side, with plenty of 

 Callitriehe autumnalis ; it was here that the Rev. E. F. Linton, as 

 recorded in the 4 Journal of Botany/ March, 1886, found Nairn, 

 then new to Killarney. Among my Characem (kindly looked over 

 by the Messrs. Grove) I find Chara fraqilis var. cayiUacea and 



mtelta tramhmns were gathered here. Around the hay Kqnisetum 

 jVilsoni, Polygonum minus and Xasturtium pahixtre, the tall upright 

 form, were noted, with Planta major var. intermedia; a small 

 island in the bay here is full of Lytimechia vulgaris, a very rare 

 Kerry plant. 



Leaving Eoss Bay on our northward course, Hieracium mibel- 

 latum takes the place of 11. pallidum along the broken limestone 

 shore with ThaUctrum jl .mm and Rubus saxaiilis. On entering 

 V ictoria Bay I came across a small pool, shut off from the lake, 

 owing to the excessive drought, by a ridge of rocks ; growing tins 

 anae within reach of my arm were several fine tufts ot Nmas witn 

 Plenty of Chara aspera and * . hispida. Along the wooded shore uere 

 U«rex pallescem was noted, while about Mahony's Point Varum 

 "rticillatum again occurs rather plentifully, with Bartst* v> > 

 sparingly. Two curious forms of Mentha satha I gathered mar 



