138 RUBIACEA. (Galium. 
not infrequently seen growing in and about cottage gardens, 
but outside the neighbourhood of Killarney, it proves to 
be a very rare plant in Kerry. 
A. cynanchica Linn. Squinancy-wort. 
Districts — — I. — V. — VII. VI. IX. 
Native. On sandhills and dry sandy pastures near the sea. 
Common in the north of the county, local elsewhere, and 
absent from many apparently suitable sandhills. Peren. 
June—July. Calcicole A. 
III. Rather sparingly on the sandhills at Ballinskelligs, 
1900: R.W.S.—V. At intervals along the south shore of 
Tralee Bay from near Camp to Castlegregory ; very abundant 
and whitening the ground in many places for a considerable 
area on the sandhills to the north and west of Castlegregory as 
far as Kilshannig and Fermoyle ; in several stations round 
Smerwick Harbour and Ferriter’s Cove west of Dingle : 
Hart 1884. Still abundant about Castlegregory, Fermoyle 
and other stations named above, and on sandhills at Caher, 
Brandon Bay, and on Derrymore, Tralee Bay, 1890-1907.— 
VII. On the limestone rocks about Kilfenora and Fenit, 
Tralee Bay, and abundant at Barrow Harbour, especially 
on the north side and adjoining sandhills, 1890-1914.— 
VIII. Abundant on the sandhills from Rahoneen to Bally- 
heige, 1888-1905 : R.W.S.—IX. Abundant on sandhills at 
Beal Point and Ballybunnion : Stewart 1890, and in 1889- 
1908: R.W.S. 
First record in 1806: Mackay Rar.— Plentiful on the 
sandhills along the coast of Kerry.” Thirty-four years 
earlier than this, however, Dr. John Rutty in his Nat. Hist. 
of County Dublin, states that it was sent from the south of 
Treland to Dr. Abraham Jenkins, then engaged in the 
preparation of an Irish flora, which, however, was never 
published. As the only southern localities on record are 
Youghal, which is certainly an error, and Tramore, 
Waterford, which is most probably another, it would seem 
that the plant referred to was sent from Kerry. 
This is quite a characteristic plant of the sandhills in 
north Kerry and the Dingle peninsula, where it occurs often 
in great abundance. It is very rare elsewhere in the county, 
and appears to be quite absent from the extensive sandhills 
at the head of Dingle Bay and from those at Darrynane and 
at the mouth of the Inny River. It is most probably 
confined in Ireland to the southern half of its west side, 
from Galway to Kerry, finding its southern limit at Ballin- 
skelligs. 
