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as elsewhere in Ireland ; a pale purple state, however, is not 
infrequent, and, more rarely, pure white is also seen. In 
a few places the last-named is the predominant colour, as 
about the old mines on Ross Island, Killarney, where the 
ground is dotted about with many dense tufts of this plant. 
CARYOPHYLLEZ. 
SAPONARIA Linn. 
S. officinalis Linn. Soapwort. 
Districts I. Il. WI. — vV. VI. — VII. IX. 
Alien. Banks, roadsides and waste places. Rather rare 
and local. Peren. August—October. 
I. In several localities between Kenmare and Kilgarvan, 
as about Cleady and Caher, &c., 1890-1913.—II. By the 
roadside west of Kenmare and again at Castle Cove and near 
Darrynane Hotel, 1889-1913.—III. About Knightstown, 
Valencia, 1906.—V. In one or two places about Castlegregory 
and Tullaree, and near a deserted coast-guard station at 
Minard west of Anascaul, 1890-1914.—VI. In several 
localities about Killarney, as on the shore of Castlelough 
bay and on the north shore of Ross bay, Lower Lake; in 
the Home Park and on the roadside near Courteene Hall, 
&c., 1887-1914.— VIII. On a roadside bank near Lerrig ; 
north of Abbeydorney ; near Finnuge and by the roadside 
east of Moneycashen, 1892-1904.—IX. In one or two spots 
by the roadside between Ballybunnion and Cashen Ferry 
bridge, 1889-1908, by the roadside near Tarbert, 1904 : 
R.W.S., seen in the last-named station, 1913: Phillips. 
First record in 1888: R.W.S., Journ. of Bot. 
This is a very persistent relic of former cultivation, 
and although no early record of its occurrence in Kerry is 
available, there can be but little doubt that it has been 
established very many years in several of the stations given 
above. About Castlelough bay, Killarney, the flowers arc 
usually double. 
[DianTrHus PLUMARIUS Linn. Common Pink.—VI. In 
considerable quantity on a rocky promontory in front of the 
Lake Hotel, Killarney, June 27, 1856 (Rev. W. M. Hind) 
Phytol. 1857, p. 28. Still in the above locality, where it has 
been noticed by the present writer for several years. The 
plant, however, can no longer be described as occurring 
“in considerable quantity ”; in 1914, as well as for the 
past twelve years or more, only one fair sized patch has been 
