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CARYOPHYLLEA. [Dianthus. 
seen. The rocky eminence on which the Dianthus grows 
has been laid out with walks and view-points, and is much 
used by visitors to the adjacent Lake Hotel, who have no 
doubt helped to reduce the area formerly occupied by this 
Pink. While it is a surprise to find a member of this xero- 
phytic family maintaining its position amid the humid 
surroundings of the Kerry climate for a period of probably 
well over sixty years, it affords a good illustration of how 
persistently an introduced plant will cling to a very re- 
stricted area when once established there.] 
SILENE Linn. 
S. Cucubalus Wibel. S. inflata Smith. S. latifolia Rendle 
& Britten. Bladder Campion. 
Districts I. II. II. IV. V. Vi. VII. VI. IX. 
Native. Hedge banks, field-sides, waste places, &c., 
especially near the sea. Rather rare. Peren. June— 
August. 
More frequent in Districts I., VI. & VII. than elsewhere, 
and quite rare in IX., where it has been noticed only along 
the railway near Listowel. 
From sea-level, to 950 feet in the upper Roughty valley 
(R.W.S.). 
First record in 1857: Rev. W. M. Hind, Phytol., p. 28. 
The var. PUBERULA (Jord.) has been noted in Districts IV. 
& VI., and no doubt occurs elsewhere in the county. 
S. maritima With. Sea Campion. 
Districts I. TI. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. 
Native. Shingly and rocky sea shores. Common and locally 
abundant ; very rarely inland on mountain cliffs, and at 
low level on lake shores. Peren. May—September. 
Inland localities are—IV. At 1,400 feet above Auger 
Lake in the Gap of Dunloe: Hart 1882.—VI. Abundant on 
the shores of the Lakes of Killarney (Isaac Carroll) Cyb. 
1866. Still locally abundant about the Lower and Middle 
Lakes, as on the Castlelough ruins and adjacent shore, 
along nearly the whole of the south shore of Ross Island, 
especially about the old Mines, on rocks and old mine debris 
Be Le Middle Lake shore near the Colleen Bawn rock, 1914 : 
At sea-level, and at 1,400 feet in the Gap of Dunloe (Hart). 
First record in 1844: 8. P. Woodward, Phytol., p. 878. 
The Killarney localities for S. maritima are almost the 
