INTRODUCTION. XXXV 
If the Kerry flora be divided amongst Watson’s well-known 
Types of Distribution, the following result is obtained— 
482 belong to his British* Type 32 to the Scottish & Intermediate Types 
135, » English ,, 20 ,, Highland Type 
31 3 » Atlantic ,, 5 ,, Germanic 
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These numbers give a total of 705, leaving 57 Kerry plants 
unclassed by Watson in his Cybele Britannica which was 
primarily written to show the distribution of species in Great 
Britain. 
The British and English Type plants, which include those 
spread throughout Great Britain and those seen chiefly in 
South Britain respectively, form, as might be expected, the 
bulk or ground-work of the Kerry flora, no less than 617 out 
of the 705 classed by Watson coming under these two heads. 
Most of these plants are as abundant in Kerry as they are 
elsewhere in the British Isles. But even among the British 
or most ubiquitous type, several plants, widely distributed in 
Treland, prove to be unexpectedly rare or altogether absent in 
Kerry. Amongst the members of this type not yet seen in the 
county may be mentioned— 
Papaver Argemone Lycopsis arvensis Carex paludosa 
Geranium sanguineum Lamium album Glyceria aquatica 
Trapogopon pratensis Scleranthus annuus Agropyron caninum 
Gentiana Amarella Scirpus sylvaticus 
While amongst those which are very rare in Kerry are 
included— 
Ranunculus auricomus Trifolium medium Lamium amplexicaule 
Fumaria officinalis T. arvense Chenopodium Bonus- 
Hypericum perforatum Pimpinella Saxifraga Henricus 
Malva rotundifolium Lithospermum officinale Carex acuta 
Ononis repens Linaria vulgaris Poa nemoralis 
Even such a universally distributed species as Anthriscus 
sylvestris proves to be either rare or absent over the greater 
portion of the county. 
Of Watson’s English Type plants, the following although 
widely distributed in Ireland, are unexpectedly rare in Kerry, 
several of them, indeed, occurring in one station only— 
Ranunculus Lingua Leontodon hispidum Allium vineale 
Geranium columbinum Carduus tenuiflorus Lemna trisulca 
(nanthe Phellandrium Chlora perfoliata Potamogeton lucens 
Dipsacus sylvestris Rumex Hydrolapathum Carex disticha 
* Tn all cases where Watson has combined two of his types, the plant so 
described is included under the first named or predominant type. 
