Pimpinella.] UMBELLIFERA. 125 
PIMPINELLA Linn. 
P. Saxifraga Linn. 
Districts — — ~— — — [VI] — — IX. 
Native? In a dry pasture and by a wayside. Very rare 
indeed. Peren. July—August. Calcicole A. 
[VI. Very sparingly by a roadside in the Lake Hotel 
grounds, Killarney: R.W.S. 1904—about five or six plants 
still there in 1914, but showing no signs of spreading.]— 
IX. Sparingly on the banks of the River Feale about three 
miles east of Listowel: R.W.S. 1891. 
First record in 1891: R.W.S8., Journ. of Bot. 
This proves to be one of the rarest plants in Kerry and 
in its Killarney station has been, most probably, accidentally 
introduced. The few plants seen there, grow beside a 
carriage drive, in, or near, a dwarf hedge of Laurels which 
the proprietor of the adjoining Hotel informed the writer 
were obtained some years previously from the north-east 
of Ireland, where this Pimpinella is common. The great 
rarity of this plant is all the more surprising as a considerable 
portion of the north of the county, and several large tracts 
in the south, appear to be eminently suited for the growth 
of this calcicole species. The persistent moisture of Kerry 
may account for this rarity, for although common over the 
greater portion of Ireland, P. Saxifraga is rare or local along 
‘the west coast, and is still unrecorded for west Mayo and 
Leitrim. 
P. magna Linn. P. major Huds. 
Districts — — — IV. V. VI. VI. VIII. IX. 
Native. Banks, roadsides and bushy places. Rare in the 
south, rather common and locally abundant in the north. 
Peren. July—September. Calcicole B. 
IV. By the roadside south-west of Mount Rivers near 
Killorglin, 1904: R&.W.S.—V. On banks by the road near 
Ballyferriter south of Smerwick : Hart 1884—still there in 
several places, 1905, and sparingly at Caheratrant south of 
Ventry ; abundant by the lime-kiln road east of Castle- 
gregory and frequent about Camp, Tralee Bay, 1890-1907 : 
R.W.S.—VI. ‘“ Very plentiful in Muckruss woods near the 
Abbey”: Mackay Rar. 1806—still there in 1914, and in 
several other places about Muckross and Cloghereen ; abun- 
dant by roadsides east of Beaufort bridge, 1911 ; sparingly 
near the River Maine east of Farranfore, 1903.—VII. In 
several places to the north and west of Tralee and abundant 
about Ballyseedy and Ballycarty to the,east of Tralee, 
