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paper he increases the Kerry records by 14, including Callitriche 
autumnalis, Cephalanthera ensifolia (with Dr. Battersby and 
A. Balfe), Carex divulsa and Festuca Myuros ; here also HENRY 
C. HART (b. 1847—d. 1908), is first credited with Nasturtium 
palustre, W. Andrews with Elantine hexandra, David Moore with 
Juncus obtusiflorus and the Rev. 8. Madden with Asplenium lan- 
ceolatum. A few additions were also made about this time in the 
Journ. of Bot., as in 1876 when A. G. More records the occur- 
rence of Lycopodium inundatum, while in the following year 
he puts on record Naias flexilis and Nitella flexilis. These and 
two more unimportant additions bring this decade to a close 
with only 310 plants definitely recorded for the county, a total 
barely two-fifths of its present known flora. 
The next decade opened with the addition of four Chare by 
D. Moore and another, Nitella translucens, by A. G. More in 
the Journ. of Bot., while in the following year appeared the 
first of several subsequent systematic reports on the botany 
of various districts in the county. These investigations, made 
under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy, were four in 
number. The first was by RICHARD M. BARRINGTON (b. 1849— 
d. 1915), ‘‘ Report on the Flora of the Blasket Islands Co. Kerry.’ 
This was published in the Proc. Roy. Irish Acad., Science, in 1881, 
and was a careful analysis of the vegetation of these remote 
islands. As might be expected, the great majority of the 174 
species there set down are plants common throughout the 
county, nevertheless as many as 98 are here first definitely 
recorded as occurring in Kerry, the most interesting of them 
being Lamium amplexicaule and Carex disticha, two of the 
rarest plants in the county. 
Two interesting papers by Henry C. Hart follow next. The 
first, ‘‘ Report wpon the Botany of the Macgillycuddy’s Reeks 
Co. Kerry ”’—Proc. Roy. Irish Acad., Science, 1882, adds 51 to 
the flora, mostly common species ; while two years later his 
“* Notes on the Plants of some of the Mountain Ranges of Ire- 
land”’—Proc. Roy. Irish Acad., Science, 1884, which included 
an examination of the Dingle peninsula, added another 60 to 
the list, including such rare or interesting Kerry species as 
Ranunculus Lingua, Trifolium medium, Silybum Marianum, 
Hieracium vulgatum, Rumex Hydrolapathum, Polygonum 
viviparum, Lisiera cordata, Habenaria conopsea, Eleocharis 
uniglumis, Scirpus rufus and Carex teretiuscula. 
The last of these papers published under the auspices of 
the Academy was SAMUEL A. STEWART’S (b. 1826—d. 1910), 
“ Report on the Botany of South Clare and the Shannon ”— 
Proc. Roy. Irish Acad. 1890. Mr. Stewart’s investigations 
