54 MALVACEA. [ Lavatera. 
One or two bushes on Inishnabro and several on the 
Tearaght, Blasket Islands : Barrington 1881 : it occurs here 
also on Inishvickillane, 1906: Miss M. Delap. In several 
places near houses about Castlegregory, about Inch and 
Castlemaine Bay, &c., 1890-1914 [—VI. Sparingly about 
houses in several places, as Killarney, Farranfore, Mola- 
hiffe, near Lisroe bridge, Rockfield, between Lough Guitane 
and Killaha Castle, roadside north of Loo Bridge, Glenflesk, 
&¢e., 1890-1908—VII. Sparingly about the Spa and Fenit, 
Tralee Bay, 1889-1914; near Barrow Harbour, 1902, and 
inland near cottages about Currans, 1903.—VIII. In many 
spots about Banna, Ardfert, Ballyheige, and inland about 
Abbeydorney, 1888-1914.—IX. In several places about 
Ballybunnion, Beal and Tarbert, &c., 1889-1908] R.W.S. 
First record in 1806: Mackay Rar. ; 
There can be but little doubt that the Lavatera is truly 
native on some of the islands off the Kerry coast. The Little 
Skellig on which it occurs, is a rugged mass of rock rising 
abruptly to 440 feet in height ; it lies fully six miles from 
the nearest mainland, and is, and has been so far as is 
known, uninhabited. The plant grows also on three of the 
most remote Blasket Islands: Inishnabro—uninhabited, 
Inishvickillane—now deserted, but formerly supported one 
family, and Tearaght, which contains the lighthouse- 
keepers only ; these islands are also from six to eight miles 
from the mainland. While almost certainly native on these 
islands, the Lavatera is very rarely seen on the mainland 
except in stations where it is obviously open to the suspicion 
of introduction, and it is only on its standing in the few 
island localities given above that its claim to be considered 
a native of Kerry can be based with any confidence. 
MALVA Linn. 
M. moschata Linn. Musk Mallow. 
Districts I. II. II — — vVI~— — 
Alien or Denizen. Waysides, banks and field borders. 
Rare and local. Peren. July---August. 
I, Sparingly by the River Finnihy north of Kenmare 
and in several places along the Roughty near Cleady : 
R.W.S. 1890, and in 1904.—II. In two or three spots on 
roadside banks about a mile north of Kenmare, 1889-1908 : 
#.W.S.—II. A few plants by the roadside east of Caragh 
Lake schoolhouse, 1902-04: Capt. Creagh-Haward.—VI. 
