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damp grassy places in the sandhills at Beale Point : Stewart 
1890—still there and sparingly near Ballybunnion and the 
Cashen River, 1902-08: R.W.S. On Carrig Island, Bally- 
longford, 1913: Phillips. 
First record in 1884: Hart, Proc. R.I.A. 
SPERGULA Linn. 
S. arvensis Linn. Corn Spurrey. 
Districts I. I. I. IV. V. VIE. VII. VII. Ix. 
Colonist. Cultivated ground, roadsides, waste places, &c. 
Common. Ann. May—September. Calcifuge B. 
From sea-level, to 925 feet in the Clydagh valley and to 
1,025 feet by the Morley’s Bridge—Ballyvourney road 
(R.W.S.). 
First record in 1881: Barrington, Proc. R.I.A. 
The usual Kerry plant is S. sativa (Boenn.); the var. 
vulgaris (Boenn.), with club-shaped papillew, has been noted— 
III. Along the roadside near the north end of Caragh Lake, 
1906.—IV. On the Tomies shore of the Lower Lake, 
Killarney, 1902.—VI. Roadsides east of Killarney and by 
the Upper Lake, &c., 1904: R.W.S.—IX. Near Ballylong- 
ford, 1913: Phillips. 
SPERGULARIA Presl. 
S. rubra Presl. Lepigonum rubrum Wahlb. Alsine rubra 
Crantz. 
District — — TI — — ~—~ ~~ ~~ — 
Alien. Roadsides and waste places. Very rare, but locally 
abundant. Ann. May—October. 
III. By a roadside wall, Knightstown, Valencia (Somer- 
ville) R.W.S. 1902. Abundant in an old disused slate yard 
and on paths and roadsides in Knightstown, Valencia, 
1905-06 : Miss Delap & R.W.S. 
First found by Mr. A. Somerville in 1901, and recorded by 
R.W.S. in Irish Nat., 1902, p. 156. 
There can be but little doubt that S. rubra has been intro- 
duced in this its only Kerry station. Vessels from various 
English ports called formerly at Knightstown for cargoes of 
slates for which the neighbouring quarries, now unfortu- 
nately closed, were famous, and most probably introduced 
this plant along with their ballast. It appears to be 
thoroughly established about Knightstown. 
