Ranunculus.) RANUNCULACEA. 5 
Glencar valley and in Caragh Lake, 1913.—V. In a small 
stream at the west end of Castlegregory Lake, 1890: R.W.S. 
From sea-level, to 525 feet in the Roughty valley (R.W.S.). 
First record in Cyb. 1866: Babington. 
Var. PSEUDO-FLUITANS (Hiern).—VI. In the Bilrook 
stream, Muckross, Killarney: &.W.S. 1889, and in 1902. 
In a small stream near Maine Bridge between Farranfore 
and Castlemaine, 1888: R.W.S. 
Of the large-flowered aquatic Ranunculi in Kerry, the 
most common form is a plant with almost semi-circular 
leaves, much broader than long, with the middle lobe small, 
obtuse and undivided; the shape of this floating leaf, 
whether in still or running water, is very constant throughout 
the county ; it seems best referred to R. floribundus (Bab.). 
Plants which differ but little from the preceding except in 
having leaves 2 circular, with all the lobes more or less 
notched, are included in the distribution given above. 
R. Baudotii Godr. 
Districts — — — — V. — VII. VIII. IX. 
Native. Pools, ditches and lakes near the sea, also, but 
very rarely,inland. Very rare in the south, locally abundant 
elsewhere. Peren. May—July. 
V. Near Castlegregory (Moore) Cyb. 1866—still abundant 
in the Lake and frequent in brackish pools in this neighbour- 
hood, 1907: R.W.S. Pools east of Camp on the south side 
of Tralee Bay: Hart 1884. Ponds on Derrymore, Tralee 
Bay; near Kilshanning and Fermoyle, Brandon Bay: 
R.W.S. 1889.—VII. Ditches west of Castlemaine and 
in ponds, &c., about Blennerville, 1905; sparingly about 
Fenit, and—VIII. Abundant between Rahoneen and Banna : 
R.W.S. 1889, and in 1902. Plentiful in a small lake near 
Lerrig north of Ardfert, three miles from the nearest sea : 
R.W.S. 1903, and in 1914.—IX. Near Beal Point : Stewart 
1890. By the coast west of Ballylongford and near the 
Cashen River south of Ballybunnion, 1894: R.W.S. On 
Carrig Island, Shannon estuary, 1913: Phillips. ; 
First record in Cyb. 1866: Moore. 
No member of the aquatic group of Ranunculs shows a 
greater variety of leaf forms than R. Baudotii. This appears 
to be especially the case when the plant grows on mud, or 
in shallow, half-dried pools, where almost every gradation 
between capillary and tripartite wedge-shaped leaf segments 
may be found. Lerrig pond is the only inland station for 
this plant at present known in the county. 
