Cardamine.] CRUCIFERA. 21 
CARDAMINE Linn. 
C. pratensis Linn. Lady’s Smock. Cuckoo Flower. 
Districts I. II. Il. IV. V. VI. VII. VII. IX. 
Native. Moist pastures and meadows, stream-sides and 
other damp places. Common. Peren. April—June. 
From 3ea-level, to 2,650 feet on the Slieve Mish 
Mountains, to 2,940 feet on the Reeks (Hart), and to 3,120 
feet near the summit of Brandon (R.W.S.). 
First record in 1881: Barrington, Proc. R.I.A. 
C. hirsuta Linn. 
Districts I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. Ix. 
Native. Waste places, walls, banks, &e. Common. Ann. 
March—September. 
From sea-level, to 2,550 feet on the Reeks (Hart), and to 
2,600 feet on Brandon (Colgan). 
First record in 1882: Hart, Proc. R.I.A. 
C. flexuosa With. C. sylvatica Link. 
Districts I. II. WI. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. 
Native. Damp shady places. Rather common. Ann. 
May—September. 
From sea-level, to 2,150 feet on Brandon (R.W.8.). 
First record in 1881: Barrington, Proc. R.I.A. 
Rather less common in the county than C. hirsuta, and 
owing to the situations it affects, inclined to be local, 
especially in the north. 
[C. amara Linn.—III. Very sparingly in a moorland 
swamp in the Glencar valley, a mile or two west of Lickeen 
House, Blackstones bridge (H. S. Thompson & A. Eliott) 
Journ. of Bot., 1910, p. 227. The above record gives a very 
wide and unexpected extension to the range of this rare 
plant, which has not hitherto been found in Ireland outside 
of Ulster, a gap of more than 150 miles separating the Kerry 
from the nearest known northern station. Unfortunately 
no specimen was gathered, Mr. Thompson at the time being 
unaware of the great interest to Irish botanists of his 
discovery. It is a plant, however, he knows well, and in 
reply to a request for further information, he stated that 
contrary to its usual habit of growing in masses, he only 
remembered seeing two plants. A search by the present 
writer in the rather indefinite locality given above, June 
