82 ROSACEA. [Rubus. 
R. Balfourianus Blox. 
VI. Killarney (Babington) Cyb. 1866. In a damp thicket 
on limestone near the Lake Hotel, Killarney, 1905!: 
R.W.S. 1908. 
R. cesius Linn. Dewberry. 
“On many of the sandhills on the Kerry coast, par- 
ticularly near the mouth of the Shannon”: Mackay Rar. 
1806. ‘Still abundant on the Ballybunnion and Beal sand- 
hills in the Shannon estuary and common elsewhere round 
the coast, 1914, &c.: R.W.S. 
R. saxatilis Linn. Stone Bramble. 
Districts — TI. — — — VI -— — — 
Native. Bare rocky places and thickets on the limestone. 
Very rare and local. Peren. May—July. Calcicole A. 
Il. Very sparingly on one of the Greenane Islands, 
Kenmare Bay, 1904: R.W.S. 1908.—VI. “‘ Between the 
rocks, Ross Island, Killarney”: Wade Rar. 1804. 
“* Frequent in the woods of Muckruss ” : Mackay Rar. 1806. 
‘** Among loose stones by the side of the lake at Muckruss, 
ripening its fruit in July ” : Mackay Cat. 1825. Still plentiful 
in many places on Ross Island and in Muckross demesne as 
well as along the north shore of Muckross Lake ; it occurs 
also in many spots in the Home Park, and, more sparingly, 
along the shore of Castlelough Bay on the Lower Lake, 
1904-12: R.W.S. 
First record in 1804: Wade Rar. 
This plant is quite confined to the limestone in Kerry 
and, outside the neighbourhood of the Killarney Lakes, is 
one of the rarest species in the county. It appears to be 
on the verge of extinction in its Kenmare Bay station. 
(Dryas ocToPETaLa Linn. Mountain Avens.—‘‘ On the 
hills near the passage into the upper lake of Killarney. 
Mr. Heaton informed the celebrated botanist Mr. Ray that 
he also found it on the mountains between Gort and 
Gallaway in this kingdom ” (Dr. Smith) Hist. of Kerry, 1756, 
p. 374, No. 18. Mr. Heaton, no doubt, knew the Dryas, 
and found it in the adjoiming county Clare ; the plant, more- 
over, is mentioned by Lhwyd as common on mountains and 
heathy ground in Munster (Phil. Trans., 1712, Vol. 27). 
Neither Wade nor Mackay, however, appear to have seen 
this plant in Kerry, nor is there any modern record of its 
