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LYTHRARIES. 
PEPLIS Linn. 
P. Portula Linn. Water Purslane. 
Districts I. II. II. IV. V. VI. VII. VII. IX. 
Native. In pools, ditches, wet roadsides and other watery 
places. Common. Peren. June—August. Calcifuge B. 
From sea-level, to 1,100 feet in Lough Nogeeha, Paps 
Mountain (R.W.S.), and probably higher. 
First record in 1881: Barrington, Proc. R.I.A. 
A form of this plant was gathered by Mr. Druce at 
Killarney approaching the var. LonaipentTata J. Gay: 
vide New Phytol., Nov. 1911. 
LYTHRUM Linn, 
L. Salicaria Linn. Purple Loosestrife. 
Districts I. If. WT. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. Ix. 
Native. In ditches and wet fields, about riversides and 
other marshy places. Very common  Peren. July— 
September. 
From sea-level, to 1,025 feet near Drung Hill and to 1,450 
feet by Lough Ferta, Teermoyle Mountain, Glenbeigh 
(R.W.S.). 
First record in 1884: S. P. Woodward, Phytol., p. 878. 
This richly coloured plant is especially abundant in the 
west of the county, where it may sometimes be seen almost 
covering the poor peaty fields with a sheet of purple. 
[EscaLLon]A MACRANTHA Wedd.—This ornamental bush 
thrives very well in the moist Kerry climate, and is becommy 
established in several parts of the county, as on Valencia 
Island, about Darrynane, &c. Self-sown seedlings have 
been noted in several places, as on the damp rocks below 
Blackwater bridge between Kenmare and Parknasilla, where 
they grow in company with numerous seedling Rhododen- 
drons. The Hscallonia, however, has not yet spread to wild 
‘looking places, nor to anything like the same extent as has 
Fuchsia Ricartoni, with which handsome bush it not in- 
frequently associates, 
