xiv INTRODUCTION. 
a Botanical Excursion in Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Wales 
and Ireland” appeared in the Phytologist the following year, 
1844. His tour in Ireland included visits to Kenmare, Kil- 
larney and Brandon, the Kenmare portion at least being under 
the guidance of Dr. Taylor above referred to. Although his 
list includes 29 species not previously recorded for the county, 
they are all common plants with the exception of two ferns, 
Aspidium Lonchitis (found on Brandon), and Lastrea spinulosa 
(with Dr. Taylor), both very rare in Kerry. Two more records 
appear in Newman’s Brit. Ferns published the same year, 
Lastrea emula and Polypodium Phegopteris, the latter found 
by Dr. Taylor and David Moore ; while four years later the 
Rev. T. O’Mahony recorded in the London Journ. of Bot. 1848 
his discovery of Simethis bicolor at Darrynane. 
The following decade furnished several additions to the 
Kerry list. In 1852, Prof. JOHN BALFOUR of Edinburgh 
(b. 1808—d. 1884) made a tour in Ireland with a party of his 
pupils, and among other places visited Killarney and ascended 
¢ Mangerton, Macgillycuddy’s Reeks, &c. An account of this 
expedition was published the following year in the Phytologist, 
1853. Most of the plants he found had been already recorded, 
and his “ Botanical Trip to Ireland” adds but five species to 
the Kerry total, of which only Althea officinalis and Drosera 
intermedia are worthy of attention. The same year Daniel 
Oliver communicated two interesting Kerry records to the 
Phytologist, one for Agrimonia odorata, the other for Carex 
punciata, both found by him near Dingle ; while two years 
later the same Journal published a letter to the editor from 
JOSEPH WOODS (b. 1776-d. 1864) entitled“ Some Botanical Notes 
made during a Tour through a part of Ireland, éc.,” in which 
are included nine additions to the flora, only two of these, 
however, Lychnis diurna and Habenaria albida being of any 
special interest. The year 1855 also saw the publication of 
Thomas Moore’s handsome folio on the “ Ferns of Great 
Britain and Ireland” which while it adds no new plant to 
the flora, gives definite localities for some of the more interesting 
species. 
Two years later, in 1857, the Phytologist published two papers 
by the Rev. William Hind, one “ Three days at Killarney,” 
the other “ Dingle and its Flora.” These contain a number of 
first records, but nearly all of them are for common plants, 
and out of a total of 28, only Cochlearia danica and Pinguicula 
vulgaris, both rare species in Kerry, need be mentioned. In 
the same vol., ISAAC CARROLL (b. 1828—d. 1880), enumerates in 
a “ Notice of Scarce Irish Plants” some of the rarer mountain 
