INTRODUCTION. hii 
this Barony, but they are merely mountain streams with short 
and rocky courses. Lakes and lakelets are fairly numerous, 
especially in the south, the largest being the Cloonee Lakes 
with Loughs Inchiquin and Glanmore, none of which exceeds 
a mile in its longest diameter. Swamps, bogs and woods occur 
in numerous localities, much of the wood in the remoter glens 
being undoubtedly native and the remnant of an ancient wide- 
spread forest. This division includes the two highest roads in 
the county, those crossing the Priestsleap and Lackabaun 
mountains reaching 1,531 and 1,482 feet respectively. The 
only town is Kenmare with a population of about 1,000 and 
a small tidal harbour lying about half a mile to the south. 
The branch railway from Headford Junction runs through 
this division for a distance of about 12 miles, and although 
only recently completed has already left its mark on the local 
flora, a colony of Juncus glaucus having established itself 
beside the track at Kilgarvan station. So far, however, 
neither Senecio radiatus nor Linaria minor, which occur in 
several places along the main line to Killarney, have succeeded 
in gaining a footing here. 
Among the localities of greatest interest to the botanist are 
the neighbourhood of the Cloonee and Inchiquin Lakes, where 
Elatine hexandra and Eriocaulon are abundant, with Arbutus, 
Microcala filiformis, Utricularia intermedia, Sisyrinchiwm 
angustifolium and Rynchospora fusca ; Derreen, with Sisy- 
rinchium and abundant Juncus tenuis; and the Roughty 
valley about Morley’s Bridge, with Wahlenbergia and several 
interesting Hieracia. ; 
Most of the botanical groups are well represented, but only 
three plants native in the Kerry flora are peculiar to this 
division, Geranium columbinum, Hieracium argenteum and H. 
Scullyi. An introduced species, Verbascum virgatum, has held 
its ground here for more than one hundred years and appears 
to be almost deserving of a place in the Irish flora. Inter- 
esting plants, however, are numerous and often occur in 
great abundance, such as— 
Erodium moschatum Carum verticillatum Hieracium orimeles 
Saxifraga Geum Inula Helenium Lobelia Dortmanna 
S. umbrosa Hieracium sparsifolium Pinguicula grandiflora 
Bartsia viscosa Habenaria albida Carex punctata 
Euphorbia hiberna Neottia Nidus-avis Trichomanes radicans 
Malaxis paludosa Allium Scorodoprasum Nitella translucens 
In spite of the large area of lofty mountains, alpine species 
are rare, and the sandhill and sandy pasture group of plants is 
almost completely absent. 
