128 UMBELLIFERSA. | Foaniculum. 
FE@NICULUM Hill. 
F. officinale All. F. vulgare Mill. Fennel. 
Districts — [II.] [111] — [V.] [VI.] VU. [VI] — 
Alien. Dry banks and waste places, usually near houses 
and the sea. Rare and local. Peren. July—August. 
[II. Sparingly on banks about Castlecove, Kenmare Bay, 
1889-1907.—III. An escape about Knightstown, Valencia, 
1906, and—V. Near the Dingle railway terminus, 1905.— 
VI. A garden escape about the railway near Killarney and 
by the lake-shore at Castlelough Bay on the Lower Lake, 
1888-1914, it appears to be spreading in the latter station. ]— 
VII. On banks, &c., about Barrow Harbour, 1894; [an 
escape at Seafield, Tralee Bay, 1906: R.W.S.—VIII. “ On 
a bridge in the improvements at Lixnaw growing wild 
plentifully ” (Dr. Smith) Hist. of Kerry, 1756], but not seen 
there recently: R.W.S. 
First record in 1756: Dr. Smith, Hist. of Kerry, p. 376, 
No. 36. 
Usually an obvious garden escape in Kerry, and hardly 
deserving of a place in its flora. 
CRITHMUM Linn. 
Cc. maritimum Linn. Samphire. 
Districts — II. I — V. — VI. Vil — 
Native. On rocks and cliffs by the sea, and on shingly 
beaches. Rather common and locally abundant. Peren. 
July—September. 
First record in 1857: Rev. W. M. Hind, Phytol., p. 97. 
CGNANTHE Linn. 
dE. Lachenalii C. Gmelin. 
Districts — II. WI. — V. — VII. VIII. IX. 
Native. Salt marshes and damp spots by the sea. Common. 
Peren. July—September. 
First record in 1806: Mackay Rar. “ in salt marshes near 
Calnafersy, bay of Castlemain, in great abundance.” 
This plant appears to be absent from the salt marshes 
about the head of Kenmare Bay, but it occurs in nearly 
every other suitable locality round the coast from the west 
extremity of Kenmare Bay to the county boundary near 
Tarbert on the Shannon estuary. It is also found inland 
in the marshes about the River Brick near Sleveen about 
