104 SAXIFRAGEA. [Saaxifraga. 
of the county and, generally, from the limestone. Peren. 
May—July. Calcifuge A. 
From sea-level, to the summits of the highest mountains 
in the county, attaining 3,120 feet on Brandon (&.W.S.), 
and 3,414 feet on Carrantuohill (Mackay). 
. First definitely recorded from Kerry by Dr. T. Molyneux 
in 1697, ‘“‘ grows plentifully here with us in Ireland on a 
mountain called the Mangerton in Kerry”: Phil. Trans., 
Vol. XIX., p. 510, and perhaps observed in the county 
nearly fifty years earlier, as the plant is entered, although 
without any locality, in How’s Phytologia, 1650. Other early 
records for this plant are—‘‘ On the mountains of Kerry in 
abundance”: Lhwyd, Phil. Trans., Vol. XXVII., 1712, 
p. 524. While Dr. Smith in confirming the record of 
Molyneux adds ‘it grows plentifully on Mangerton 
Mountain as it doth also on most of our mountains not 
only in this county, but also in those of Cork and Water- 
ford ” : Hist. of Kerry, 1756, p. 382, No. 99. ‘‘ This alpine 
beauty covers almost every spot about the Lakes of 
Killarney, 1796”: Wade Rar. 1804. ‘“ On the bare summits 
of the highest of Magillycuddy’s reeks,” : Mackay Rar. 1806. 
Although S. umbrosa is a much more common and widely 
distributed plant in Kerry than S. Geum, it appears to 
preserve its specific characters with greater tenacity, the 
range of its varieties being much less striking. Most, indeed, 
of the plants met with may be referred without difficulty 
to one or other of its three recognised forms ; a compact 
fleshy plant with a rosette of spreading obovate leaves and 
short but broad footstalks, being regarded as type. Examples 
are given on Pl. VI.,* figs. 14-16, &e. This is one of the 
most hardy plants in the Irish flora and ascends to the 
summits of the most exposed mountains not only in Kerry, 
but in several other counties of the south and west. 
An equally common form of S. umbrosa in Kerry is 
the var. punotaTA (Haworth). This includes plants with 
* Pirate VI. (3 life-size)— 
Forms connecting 8. hirsuta (sensu lato) with S, umbrosa—note narrow 
petioles, figs, 1-6. 
Various forms of 8. wmbrosa, figs. 7-29. 
The compact spreading form, taken as type, figs. 14-16, &e., 
Var. punctata (Haworth), figs. 10-12, &c, 
Var. serratifolia (Mackay), figs, 19-23, &c. 
All the figs, are taken from Kerry plants, except figs, 25-27, which 
are from the Pyrenees, and 28, 29, from Derbyshire where the plant 
is well established in wild locatities, 
