li INTRODUCTION. 
These are all of large if unequal dimensions, varying in area 
from 1154 sq. miles in Dunkerron North, to 306 in Trugh- 
anacmy. While the divisions are sufficiently numerous to 
display the distribution of the county flora, their boundary 
lines unfortunately too often disregard the chief physical 
features, so that they are extremely difficult to follow in the 
field. They will be found, however, accurately laid down in 
the Ordnance map of the county—scale three miles to the inch, 
as well as in the map accompanying this flora. _ 
The following table gives the names and approximate areas 
of the Baronial Divisions with the number of species in the flora 
of each. In estimating these divisional floras, all sub-species 
and segregates as well as all Rubi forms have been omitted on 
the system suggested by Mr. Praeger and already referred to 
in this Introduction, p. XxXxii. 
District Area in sq. m. Flora 
I. Glanarought 1903 527 
Ii. Dunkerron South 1513 565 
III. Iveragh 255 576 
IV. Dunkerron North 1154 515 
V. Corkaguiny 2174 608 
VI. Magunihy 268% 622 
VII. Trughanacmy 306 604 
VIII. Clanmaurice 1882 552 
IX. Iraghticonnor 1594 522 
Of the nine Districts given above, the first five in the list 
together form the South Kerry, or Division 1, of Irish Topo- 
graphical Botany, while the remaining Districts, VI., VIL., 
VIIL. and IX. form the North Kerry, or Division 2, of the same 
work. Brief sketches of the chief physical and botanical 
features of the Districts will now be given. 
District I.—GLANAROUGHT. 
Maritime. Approx. area, 190} sq.m. Flora, 527. 
Although this division is maritime, its coast line is confined 
to a portion of the narrow Kenmare Bay or River where sea 
cliffs are poorly represented and sandhills and sandy pastures 
are quite absent ; salt marshes, however, occur about Derreen 
and near the head of the estuary. 
Inland, this is a wild and well diversified division, with 
numerous mountains and much elevated ground rising in the 
south to 2,200 feet near Hungry Hill, to 2,321 at Knockboy, 
and to 2,280 at Akinkeen, while in the north it reaches 2,756 
feet on Mangerton ; several other summits rise above 2,000 feet. 
The Roughty, Slaheny and Sheen are the principal rivers in 
