Saxifraga.] SAXIFRAGEA. 107 
S. decipiens Ehrh. 8. rosacea Moench. Mossy Saxifrage. 
Districts — II. Ill. IV. V. [VL] Vil. — — 
Native. On damp cliffs, about rills and other wet spots on 
mountains. Rather local, but usually abundant where it 
occurs. Peren. June—August. 
TI. On Beeowen Mountain north of Sneem, rather sparingly 
at 1,700 feet, 1901 : Colgan & R.W.S.—III. In several places 
about Crowkeylaun Mountain east of Waterville, 1892: 
R.W.S.—IV. On Mullaghanattin Mountain, Glencar, 1885 : 
Colgan, and on the Glencar side of Beeown Mountain, 1901 : 
Colgan & R.W.S. Plentiful in Coomloughra and other 
places on the Reeks, 1889-1905 : R.W.S.—V. On Brandon 
cliffs from 2,450 to 3,000 feet : Hart 1884. Plentiful on the 
Brandon range, 1907, and on the Baurtregaum and Cahir- 
conree cliffs, Slieve Mish range, 1888: R.W.S. [—VI. At 
Killarney (Moore) Cyb. 1866—as S. hypnoides Linn., but no 
form of this plant has been recently seen about Killarney]— 
VII. On the Gormagh cliffs, Slieve Mish range, 1890: R.W.S. 
Ascends to 2,650 feet on the Slieve Mish Mountains 
(Hart), to 3,120 feet on Brandon (Mackay), and to 3,150 feet 
on the Reeks (Hart) ; its lowest level in the county is about 
1,500 feet in the Coomloughra glen, Reeks (Hart). 
The prevailing Hypnoid Saxifrage on the Kerry mountains 
appears to be S. decipiens Ehrh., its headquarters in the 
county being the Reeks and the Dingle peninsula, where it 
occurs often in great abundance. It varies considerably 
both in its size and appearance, being sometimes almost 
glabrous, often densely hairy ; the lobes of the leaves, even 
on plants from the same tuft, vary both in their width and 
degree of divergence. Gatherings from the Reeks, Brandon, 
and the Slieve Mish range, have been named as above by 
Dr. Engler, whose arrangement of these closely allied plants 
in his Monogr. Saxif. is here followed. 
Var. GRENLANDICA (Linn.)—II. Sparingly on Beeowen 
Mountain north of Sneem (Colgan & R.W.S.) R.W.S. 1903.— 
V. On a dry rock on the summit of Brandon Mountain, 
Sept. 1804 (as S. cespitosa Linn. and S. incurvifolia Don) : 
Mackay Cat.—again found on this mountain by Messrs. 
Linton in 1885, by Marshall & Shoolbred in 1902, and by 
R.W.S. in 1905, &c. 
Mackay’s original station for 8. cespitosa and S. incurvi- 
folia is a very exposed rock of no great size situated close to 
the Holy Well on Brandon summit. Plants indistinguishable 
from S. grenlandica and dwarfed S. decipiens still maintain a 
precarious existence in the cracks and hollows of this rock. 
