180 ERICACEA. {Arbutus. 
Darrynane, 1889-1912—perhaps planted. A few trees, 
several of them nearly dead, growing on the rocky southern 
side of Lough Currane a little east of Rough peninsula : 
R.W.S. 1890, and in 1904. About the Upper Lake, Killarney, 
1906 (the extreme southern end of the lake extends into this 
District). III. Sparingly on Green Island and in Reena- 
skinna bay, Lough Currane, 1892: R.W.S. One tree on the 
mountains north-east of the lake, Waterville, 1892 (Colgan) 
Cyb. 1898.—IV. One old tree by the stream running from 
Lough Googh into the Black Valley, Reeks : Hart 1882. An 
old tree on the Derrycarna stream a little east of the previous 
station, 1904 : R.W.S.—the only Arbutus seen on the Reeks— 
most probably both these records refer to the same tree. In 
several places along the portions of the Upper and Lower 
Killarney Lakes included in this District, 1888-1912: 
R.W.S.—VI. “ It grows in the Co. of Kerry on the Borders of 
Loghlen ” [Lough Lane, Killarney] : Threlkeld 1726. “‘ Wild 
in the rocky mountains which divide this county [Cork] 
from Kerry, as also in great quantities round the Lake of 
Killarney ” (Dr. Smith) Hist. of Cork, 1750. ‘‘ This beautiful 
ever-green is one of the principal ornaments of the rocks and 
mountains in and about Loughlane”’ (Dr. Smith) Hist. of 
Kerry, 1756, p. 373. ‘‘ Indigenous in that part of Kerry 
called Killarney’: Wade Rar. 1804. “‘ Very plentiful in 
most of the wooded mountains about Killarney ; in the woods 
of Muckross and in several of the islands in the lower and 
upper Jakes’: Mackay Rar. 1806. Still plentiful about the 
Upper Lake and its islands, the Long Range and adjoining 
mountain slopes, about the Middle Lake, Tore Mountain 
and Muckross demesne, about the Lower Lake and on most 
of its islands, 1888-1914—it is especially luxuriant about 
the narrow portion of the Muckross demesne near Brickeen 
bridge, where many fine trees occur. One tree on a small 
island near the south shore of Lough Guitane, five miles 
south-east of Killarney, and about half a dozen bushes on 
cliffs above the east side of the same lake, a mile farther 
east, 1896-1912: R.W.S. 
From sea-level, to 525 feet on the Reeks (Hart & R.W.S.). 
The earliest available reference to the Arbutus is found in 
an MS. inquisition of the estates of Rory O’Donohoe, made 
in or about the year 1584, a translation of which is given in 
Vol. XXXVIL., p. 433, of the Journ. of Roy. Soc. of Antiquaries 
(Dec. 1906), in which the following passage referring to the 
Killarney woods occurs ‘“‘ a great part of these woods con- 
sists of oak trees, great and small, but there are other woods 
