72 LEGUMINOS. [Vicca. 
Killarney, among loose stones: Mackay Cat. 1825. Not 
now abundant at Killarney, but it still occurs rather 
sparingly in three or four spots on Ross Island and on Rough 
Island in the Lower Lake: R.W.S. 1889, and in 1912. 
First record in 1804: Wade Rar. : 
One of the rarest plants in Kerry, and apparently quite 
confined to the shores of the Killarney lakes. 
VY. sepium Linn. Bush Vetch. 
Districts I. Il. II. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. 1X. 
Native. Hedges, woods and shady places. Common. Peren. 
April—July. 
From sea-level, to 2,050 feet in the Horse’s Glen, Manger- 
ton, and to 2,100 feet on Brandon (R.W.S.). 
First record in 1881: Barrington, Proc. R.I.A. 
Y. angustifolia Roth. 
Districts I. II. I. IV. V. VI. VIL. VIII. IX. 
Native. Sandy banks and pastures, field-sides and waste 
places. Rather common, but unevenly distributed, and 
quite rare over wide areas. Ann. May—July. 
First record in 1901: R.W.S8., Topog. Bot. 
Var. Bopartiu Koch.—I. Banks by the sea between Lehid 
and Bunaw, Kenmare Bay, 1907: &.W.S.—III. On the 
sandhills at Rossbehy (Ff. Bouskill) Irish Nat. 1903, p. 58. 
On the sandhills at Dooaghs, 1905: Miss Godfrey. 
LATHYRUS Linn. 
L. pratensis Linn. 
Districts IT. If. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VII. IX. 
Native. In meadows, hedges, waste places, &c. Very 
common. Peren. June—August. ; 
First record in 1881: Barrington, Proc. R.I.A. 
L. maritimus Bigel. Pisum maritimum Linn. Sea Pea. 
Native. Sea shores. Most probably extinct. 
Dr. Smith in his Hist. of Kerry, 1756, p. 380, No. 78, 
makes the following reference to this plant—‘t English sea- 
peas. They grow annually on the 8. point of Inch-Island 
in the bay of Castlemain in considerable quantities ; they are 
also found on the English sea coasts in like manner, in barren 
naked cliffs of rocks, and among pebbles where no earth is 
seen to give them nourishment, for the roots run to a great 
depth, to find theearth. In times of scarcity of provision they 
have afforded great relief to the people of England, who lived 
near the sea coast, and who having never observed it, till 
