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included the portion of north Kerry bordering on the Shannon, 
and added 37 species, amongst them being Hypericum perfora- 
tum and Chlora perfoliata, two of the most local plants in the 
county. 
In addition to those mentioned above, several other records 
were published about this time; thus Archdeacon Wynne, 
then Rector of Killarney, in his Phenological Observations 
published in the Quarterly Journ. of the Meteorological Soc. 
1882, &c., adds 15 common Kerry plants to the flora ; while 
in the same year A. G. More in the Journ. of Bot. records the 
discovery of Sisyrinchium angustifolium by Lady Godfrey and 
the Rev. A. Isaacs. Two years later Henry N. Ridley in the 
same Journal adds Solanum Dulcamara, in its typical state 
one of the rarest plants in Kerry, and Ceratophyllum demersum, 
while Mr. Hart increases his already long list by three species 
including Neottia Nidus-avis, vide Journ. of Bot. 1885, p. 233. 
Another interesting plant found about this time is Thalictrum 
alpinum discovered on Brandon mountain by the Rev. 
Augustin Ley and recorded in the same Journ. for 1887. 
Early in the following decade George Claridge Druce in 
his “‘ Notes on the Flora of Cork, Kerry and Dublin ””—Journ. of 
Bot. 1891, places on record one or two of the more common 
species, while seven years later the publication of the 2nd 
Edition of the Cybele Hibernica adds 19 more, including the 
following scarce or local plants found by the present writer, 
Rhamnus Frangula, Elodea canadensis, Allium vineale and 
Potamogeton obtusifolius. This was followed in 1901 by the 
appearance of Irish Topographical Botany by Robert Lloyd 
Praeger, in which for the first time the Irish flora was shown 
in its county distribution, several of the larger counties being 
subdivided to make the areas dealt with more nearly equal. 
This work increases the Kerry flora by 45 mostly common 
plants now first definitely recorded ; they include, however, 
Cochlearia anglica, Potamogeton lucens and Poa nemoralis 
found by the present writer, while Mr. Praeger here publishes 
his discovery of Geranium columbinum. 
In addition to the above, the present writer has recorded 
in various papers in the Journ. of Bot. between 1888 and 1893, 
94 species and subspecies, of which the following are either 
very rare or very local in Kerry, Trifolium striatum, T. fili- 
forme, Rosa micrantha, Pimpinella Saxifraga, Anthriscus 
vulgaris, Galium uliginosum, Dipsacus sylvestris, Artemisia 
Absinthium, Hieracium lepistoides, Lactuca muralis, Wahlen- 
bergia hederacea, Vaccinium Oxycoccus, Hypopithys multiflora, 
Statice occidentalis, Cuscuta Trifolii, Mimulus Langsdorfii, 
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