Ixx INTRODUCTION. 
in the county to be entitled to a place in the flora, is treated as 
follows :—In the first line the scientific name of the plant is 
given followed by its synonyms if thought necessary, and an 
English name if in general use : mere translations of the Latin 
names have not as a rule been given. In the second line the 
distribution of the plant is shown throughout the nine baronial 
Districts. The method selected for displaying this distribution 
is that followed in the Cybele Hibernica Hds. I. and II. 
Although not usually employed in county floras this appears to 
the writer to be the only one that shows at a glance the presence 
or absence of a plant in any particular district. In the third 
line the standing of the plant is given, and it should be borne 
in mind that this statement refers to its Kerry status only, a 
plant may be a colonist in Kerry although a native elsewhere, 
and vice versa ; the terms used are those employed by H. C. 
Watson when dealing with this subject in his Cybele Brittanica, 
and are there defined by him as follows :— 
Native.—Apparently an aboriginal [Irish] species; there 
being little or no reason for supposing it to have been first 
introduced into this island by human agency. 
Denizen.—At present maintaining its habitats as if a native 
species without the direct aid of man, but liable to some 
suspicion of having been originally introduced by human 
agency, whether by design or accident. 
Colonist.—A weed of cultivated land, by road sides or about 
houses and seldom found except in places where the ground 
has been adapted for its production and continuance by the 
operations of man. 
Alien species are those certainly or very probably of foreign 
origin ; though several generally placed in this category are 
now well established amid the indigenous flora of this island ; 
others less perfectly so. 
Casual species are chance stragglers from cultivation ; those 
occasionally imported and sown with agricultural seeds ; those 
introduced among wool, oil-seeds, or other merchandize : 
foreign plants found on ballast heaps deposited from ships, &. 
After the status, follows a list of the situations in which the 
plant is usually found, that first given indicating as a rule its 
prevailing habitat. After this comes an estimate of its distri- 
bution in the county, six degrees of frequency being employed, 
namely—Very common, Common, Rather common, Rather rare, 
Rare, and Very rare ; these terms are sometimes amplified 
where more than a general statement is considered desirable. 
Then follows the duration of the plant, whether Annual, 
Biennial, Perennial, Bush or Tree, and the time of its flowering 
