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species found by him in Kerry ; with one exception, however, 
Mieracium anglicum, they have all been previously recorded. 
Seven years later, DAVID MOORE (b. 1807-d. 1879), whose name 
here first appears as a direct contributor to Kerry botany, 
records in the Journ. of Bot. 1864 the finding of Potamogeton 
nitens near Castlegregory. 
The parting of the old ways from the new may be dated from 
the year 1866, when the Cybele Hibernica appeared, a work 
whose influence on subsequent Irish botanical investigation it 
is impossible to exaggerate. This octavo vol. of 402 pages, 
with a divisional and distributional map, and an introduction 
of 56 pages, was the joint work of David Moore, already 
mentioned, and ALEXANDER GOODMAN MORE (b. 1830-d. 1895). 
It was the first attempt to indicate the distribution of the 
Trish flora, and was an enormous advance on the topographical 
chaos of the Irish Flora and Flora Hibernica. As Mr. Colgan 
rightly observes in his Introduction to the Flora of Dublin, this 
work marked the beginning of the period when the distribution 
of the Irish flora rather than its contents was to engage the 
attention of botanists, a period which was to see these investi- 
gations attain almost to finality in the publication 35 years 
later of Robert Lloyd Praeger’s Irish Topographical Botany in 
1901. 
Of the twelve botanical districts into which the authors of 
Cybele Hibernica divided Ireland, No. I, included south-west 
Cork in addition to the whole of Kerry, so that their record of a 
plant’s occurrence in District I cannot be taken as conclusive 
evidence of its presence in Kerry unless a locality is added, 
which, unfortunately, is very rarely the case with the more 
common species. The Cybele, nevertheless, adds 34 plants to 
the county flora, of which David Moore contributes 16, includ- 
ing Viola Curtisti, Sagina subulata, Leontodon hispidum (with 
Prof. Babington) one of the rarest plants in the Kerry flora, 
Centunculus minimus, Microcala filiformis (with Messrs. L. 
Ogilby and T. Wright), Allium Scorodoprasum, Carex limosa, 
Phieum arenarium, Festuca sylvatica and Isoetes echinospora, 
while Prof. Charles Babington adds 15, among them being 
Epipactis media, Potamogeton densus and Carex acuta. Isaac 
Carroll is also here mentioned as having added to the county 
flora Hriocaulon septangulare (with T. Wright), and Cladium 
Mariscus. In the same work W. ‘Andrews is credited with 
Cerastium arvense and Prof. Harvey with Veronica Tournefortit. 
Six years later A. G. More published a list of additions to the 
Cybele in the Proc. Roy. Irish Acad., Science, 1872, under the 
title “On Recent Additions to the Flora of Ireland.” In this 
