Ixvi INTRODUCTION. 
Inland, the more promising localities are, the valley of the 
Lee, with Trifolium medium, Allium Scorodoprasum and 
Carex strigosa; and the neighbourhood of Castleisland, 
with Vaccinium Oxycoccus, Rynchospora fusca, and Carex 
limosa. 
The following six species appear to be peculiar in Kerry to 
this division :—Feniculum officinale, Ginanthe Phellandrium, 
Hieracium sciaphilum, Statice occidentalis, Rumex maritimus, 
and Allium vineale. 
District VIJI.—CLaNnMaAvRICE. 
Maritime. Approx. area, 1882 sq.m. Flora, 552. 
This division has a varied coast. A line of sandhills fully 
five miles in length skirts the shore of Ballyheige Bay and 
shelters on its inland side a few small pools and marshes, with 
the tidal Akeragh Lough near the northern extremity. This 
fine stretch of sandhills lies fully exposed to the Atlantic 
storms and produces a rather disappointing flora. A few rare 
or local plants occur, however, such as Papaver dubium, Arabis 
ciliata, Asperula cynanchica, Calystegia Soldanella and Cuscuta 
Trifolit, with Tolypella glomerata in its only known Kerry 
station. Dr. Smith in his Hist. of Kerry, 1756, records Diotis 
maritima as also growing on these sandhills, but it does not 
appear to be there now, nor can any recent confirmation of 
this old record be obtained. The rayless form of Senecio 
Jacobea is very abundant and luxuriant here and appears to 
almost completely take the place of the type on the Kerry 
sandhills. 
At the north end of these sandhills lies the bold promontory 
of Kerry Head rising to 719 feet and forming cliffs 200 feet in 
height on its northern or Shannon side. Here Hmpetrum 
nigrum occurs in several places not far from sea level, while 
Carex punctata finds its northern limit in Ireland on damp 
rocks along the southern side of the Head near Ballyheige. 
Kast of this Head, the coast-line is continued along the Shannon 
estuary by low rocky cliffs rarely exceeding 100 feet in height 
and finally giving place to the sandy fields about the mouth 
of the Cashen River, one of the few localities in Kerry for 
Chlora perfoliata. 
Inland this division consists of low-lying plains in the west 
and rounded featureless hills in the east, the latter rarely 
reaching the 1,000 feet level. Limestone formations occupy a 
considerable area, and, although often overlaid with peat, 
