74 NOTES ON SOME KEKRY PLANTS. 



here are named vars. paludosa and subglabra by Mr. Bennett. On 

 the shore below Lakeview House I was surprised to meet Mimalus 

 hiteus, well established and very abundant for about a mile. Mr. 

 Boss O'Connell, of Lakeview, has kindly given me some interesting 

 particulars of the introduction of this plant into Kerry, from which 

 I gather that the Mimuliis was brought from Virginia to the 

 O'Connells of Derrynane Abbey by a French officer about 1757, 

 and was planted by them in a small lake near the Abbey, some 

 forty miles from here. An ancestor of the present owner of Lake- 

 view brought a few plants to Killarney in 1820 and planted them 

 on the lake shore below his house, where they have flourished and 

 spread ever since. I understand the Mimulus has died out at its 

 original Kerry locality, though there seems little likelihood of its 

 doing so at Killarney for years to come. 



Crossing the Eiver Laune, which here leaves the lake, Carex 



pallescens again occurs plentifully with C. filiformis close by. I 

 gathered here a curious form of C. remota with several of the spike- 

 lets branched ; Mr. A. G. More, to whom I showed the plant, had 

 not seen this state of C. remota before. From the Laune for more 

 than a mile to Benson's Point Carum vertic ilia turn occurs in great 

 plenty ; this is the headquarters of this plant on the lake. Milium 

 effmum and Carex paniculata were next noted in several spots from 

 0' Sullivan's Cascade to Glena Bay ; at this latter place Carex 

 pendula grows above the salmon haul with Pinguicula Utsitanica and 

 Hgmcnophyllum Wilsoni, much rarer about these lakes than H. 

 tunbridgense. Along the rocky shore which extends from Brickeen 

 Bridge to our starting-point at the Muckross Boat-house, the only 

 interesting plants noted were Hieracium pallidum and various forms 

 of the Saxifraga nmbrosa and Geum group. 



The Middle Lake afforded Rubies saxatilis, Cladium germanicum, 

 Ranunculus peltatus, Elatine hexandra in several places, while along 

 the south side, under Tore Mountain, Carex pallescens again occurs 

 with luxuriant specimens of Saxifraga hirsuta and 8. Geum. Grow- 

 ing along the roadside just above the lake, I found Neottia Nidxts- 

 avis ; it occurs again a mile or so nearer Cloghereen. 



The Black Channel gave me, near the Meeting of the Waters, 

 fine specimens of Isoetes echinospora, the var. linearis of Potamogeton 

 poh/gonifoliw, discovered here by Mr. A. G. More, Carex acuta and 

 Vtrieularia intermedia. Above the Old Weir Bridge P. linearis quite 

 fills the channel, and is the most abundant of the Long Range 

 pond-weeds. I gathered here also a Potamogeton which Mr. 

 Bennett considers to be Syme's var. pseudo-jluitans \ unlike the 

 < linearis ' this occurred very sparingly. Beyond the Eagle's Nest, 

 I found Subularia again, Callitriche autumnalis, Isoetes echinospora, 

 Elatine hexandra, and Carex vesicaria in several places. In some 

 of the boggy ditches hereabouts more Utriculana intermedia occurs ; 



I could find no flowers. Near 



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was flowering plentifully in the channel. My rakings in the Upper 

 Lake were poorly rewarded ; besides that, the only two days of 

 broken weather which I had during my stay in Killarney were 

 those which I spent on this lake, and in few places in the British 



