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Uriedo) wliich is found besides only in a few isolated 

 stations nearer the Kerry and Cork coasts, to the south 

 and south-west of Killarney\ The nearest continental 

 station of the arbutus is in south-western France, about 

 400 miles (c. 640 km.) fi-om its Irish stations. 



These woods occur both on Old Red Sandstone and 

 on Carboniferous Limestone, and the arbutus is freely 

 scattered through them ; in one small portion of the 

 area it is locally dominant (Plate XI). 



The composition of the vegetation is shown in the 

 following lists of the more abundant and the more 

 characteristic but less frequent species. 



• The editor is indebted to Dr E. W. Scully for very kindly con- 

 tributing the substance of this account. 



