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in the county, with an indication of its soil preferences, whether 
calcifuge or calcicole, when this is sufficiently pronounced to 
merit attention. 
In the case of the rareror more interesting Kerry plants this 
paragraph is followed by a list of the localities in which it has 
been found, grouped under the Districts from I. to IX. 
Should the plant be known to ascend over 500 feet above 
sea level, its vertical range in the county is given, each height 
being followed by the name of the observer. In the next 
paragraph is given the earliest known record of its occurrence 
as a Kerry plant, with date, name of finder and place where 
recorded. Finally, a note is added in the case of the more 
interesting plants drawing attention to any peculiarities in their 
distribution, growth, manner of introduction, use in the 
county, &c. Should the species have varieties, they follow 
here. 
In dealing with the records, the method adopted in the 
Cybele Hibernica Ed. II., has been followed. ‘The principal 
books and papers containing references to Kerry botany are 
for the sake of brevity cited by a contraction. These contrac- 
tions will be found printed on the right hand side of the page 
in the alphabetical List of Principal Books, &c., on pp. xxiii, 
&c., of this Introduction. Thus arecord followed by a contracted 
reference and a date, implies that the authority indicated 
published in that year the record in question. Ifno other name 
appears, it signifies that the finder of the plant and the author 
of the paper are the same, where these differ, the name of the 
finder precedes that of the recorder. To give examples— 
Subularia aquatica—‘ IV. In Lough Acoose, Glencar: Hart 
1882,” means that H. C. Hart in his paper “ Report upon the 
Botany of the Macgillicuddy’s Reeks, Co. Kerry,’ Proc. Roy. 
Trish Academy, 1882, pp. 573-593, records his discovery of the 
Subularia in the locality stated. Similarly—Silene marituema— 
“‘ VI. Abundant on the shores of the Lakes of Killarney (Isaac 
Carroll): Cyb. 1866,” means that the authors of Cybele 
Hibernica Ed. I., 1866, first published in that work, Mr. 
Carroll’s reference to the Silene. 
In a record published for the first time in this flora, the 
name of the finder follows last in the sentence, as thus— 
Lychnis Githago—‘ III. Sparingly in a cornfield near Knights- 
town, Valencia, 1910: Miss Delap.” Where several records are 
followed by only one authority, such authority covers all the 
records back to the preceding authority ; thus in some instances 
one authority covers several or even all the Districts in which 
the plant is known to occur in the county. 
