2 RANUNCULACE. [Clematis. 
which are now spreading their branches, and crawling up 
several sloping rocks of variegated marble.” Amongst the 
limestone rocks of Kilbeg Bay on the north side of this lake, 
stems of this shrub were measured in 1902 over 5 inches in 
circumference. The most luxuriant Clematis, however, 
noted about the Killarney lakes occurred near the Bilrook 
bridge in the Muckross demesne, this in 1907 measured 
11 inches in circumference. 
THALICTRUM Linn. 
T. alpinum Linn. 
District — — — — VY ~~ ~~ ~— — 
Native. Wet ledges on mountain cliffs. Very rare and 
local. Peren. July—August. 
V. At about 2,000 feet on Brandon Mountain (Rev. A. 
Ley) Journ. of Bot., 1857, p. 374. 
First record in 1887: Rev. Augustin Ley, loc. cit. 
This plant must occur very sparingly on the Brandon 
range as it has not been seen there since the date of Mr. 
Ley’s record. The nearest Irish station known lies about 
100 miles to the north in Co. Galway, while in Great Britain 
this species does not extend further south than the Car- 
narvonshire Mountains, nearly a degree north of the Kerry 
locality. 
T. minus Linn. 
Districts — — — IV. ~— VI. —_- — 
Native. Damp rocky places on mountains, and on lake 
margins. Rare. Peren. July—August. 
IV. “On rocky mountains, Gap of Dunloe, and other 
places near Killarney :”” Mackay Rar. 1806. At 2,080 feet 
on the south side of Cummeenmore Mountain ; at 1,500 feet 
on Mount Brassel above Lough Callee, and in several places 
from 980 to 1,400 feet on Bull’s Mountain above the Gap 
of Dunloe: Hart 1882. From 900 to 1,500 feet on the 
Sugarloaf Mountain [Broaghnabinnia] in the Black Valley : 
Hart 1882 a. Sparingly by the bridge above Black Lake, 
Gap of Dunloe, at about 600 feet, and on the north shore of 
Lough Cummeenduff, Black Valley, at 220 feet, 1901-09 : 
f.W.S.—VI. “ Rosswood near Killarney ” : Wade Rar. 1804. 
Still in Ross woods and on several of the islands, and at 
intervals round the shores of the Lower Lake, as on Rough 
and Cow Islands, in the Home Park, about Castlelough Bay, 
