NOTES ON SOME KERRY PLANTS. 75 



Isles do wind and rain do their work better, Isoetes echinospora, 



Subularia, Elatine, Callitriche hamulata, and Nitella translucens were 



the most interesting plants noticed. Near the Hunting Tower 

 Lastrea Thelypteris was gathered growing with L. Oreopterw. About 

 a mile south of the Upper Lake lies Loch Beg, UtricuUiria inter- 

 media and Cladium yer manic wn occur in this pond, while in the bogs 

 near I found Eynchospora fusca, the station probably referred to in 



the ' Cybele Hibernica,' " Bogs near the Upper Lake of Killarney, 

 Flor. Hib." 



I spent a day examining Loch Guitane and its shores. This 

 lake lies some three miles to the east of Muckross and is about the 

 size of the Middle Lake. No subaqueous rarities were found, but 

 its shores gave me Microcala ftlifomnis in several spots with Lyco- 

 podium inundation, two of our rarest Irish plants ; both have been 

 recorded from here by Mr. A. G. More (Journ. Bot., p. 373, 1876). 

 Ranunculus peltatus, Cladium, the three Droserce, and on the lower 

 slopes of Mangerton Lycopodium clavatum, a rare Kerry plant, were 

 also noted. A little north of Loch Guitane lie the Doo loughs ; 

 around these Eynchospora fusca occurs in great plenty ; I found it 

 again in several of the bogs between these lakes and the village of 

 Cloghereen. It is abundant in the Sherehee bog about a mile 



eisrue 



N.E. of the village, where it grows with Carexlimosa, a rare Kerry 

 sedge, and Vaccinium Oxycoccos, another Kerry rarity. In the bog 

 holes here and elsewhere, Utricularia minor was flowering plenti- 

 fully, while Mentha Puleyium forms a handsome fringe round the 

 narrow stretch of water which almost encircles this bog. Near 

 here I gathered the rayed form of Centanrea nigra. Subularia 

 occurs with Elatine hexandra in Ardagh Pond. Two days spent in 

 the Woodlawn and Glenflesk demesne woods gave Sisymbrium 

 Thalianum, Wahlmbergia, very luxuriant, Stachys Betonica, Litzula 

 pilosa, Carex lav u fata, Lemna trisulca, Equisetum hyemale, Bromus 

 ( jf[fanteus, and on a wall several plants of Potenum muricatum, 

 evidently introduced, with Chelidonium majus and Linaria viscida. 

 Leaving Killarney, a run of twenty miles by rail brings you to 

 Tralee. Here I spent a week or more, examining the coast-line to 



and a few spots inland. Following the Tralee Canal 

 to where it enters the sea, I noted at Blennerville, Nasturtium 

 palustre, the prostrate stunted form, Lepigoniim neylectum, Senebiera 

 djdyma and Coronopus ; thence to the Spa, a small seaside resort, 

 Sako/a Kali, Suada maritima, Eryngium maritinum, Crithmum 



mrititmm, and Glaucium fiavum. On the soft strand below Sea- 

 field House, I found Zostera nam in its second known Irish locality, 

 Mr. More's station at Baldoyle, near Howth, being the other ; 

 nearer the house, Marrubium ruhjare, a solitary plant was noted. 

 About Feilit, the maritime form of Solanum Dulcamara grows 

 a jaong the shingle ; it is noticed by Mr. H. C. Hart as frequent 

 along the opposite shore of this bay. llyoscyamus niger is plentiful 

 beyond the new pier with Silybum Marianum. Near the northern 

 head of the Fenit peninsula, Senecio Jacob&a var. Jjnsctdosus is very 

 Plentiful, while near it, in a boggy hollow, Trifolium fragifmm is 

 abundant. This seems a common clover in Kerry wherever sand- 



