Arbutus.) ERICACE. 181 
and underwoods in the island of Loughleane and elsewhere 
in the islands, where grow certain trees called Crankany 
which bear fruit every month throughout the entire year, 
This fruit is sweet, the size of a small damson and of little 
value except for its beautiful appearance.” It is most 
interesting to note that this name “ Crankany ” is a very 
fair phonetic rendering of the Irish name (Crouncahinyé) for 
the Arbutus still in vogue about the Cloonee Lakes, Kenmare 
Bay, as ascertained there by Mr. Colgan in 1901. The 
earliest printed reference to this tree, however, does not 
occur for another fifty years or more—“ of late dayes found 
in the West part of Ireland ” (Parkinson) Theatr. Bot. 1640, 
pp. 1489-90. In the next two records the tree is referred 
to Kerry but no definite locality is given “. . . in the 
county of Kerry (where the Arbutus grows) . . .” : Ray’s 
Synopsis, Ed. II. 1696, p. 442—under Pinus sylvestris. And 
“on the mountains of Keri” (Lhwyd) Phil. Trans. 1712, 
XXVII., pp. 524-526. It is only in 1726 that a definite 
record with locality occurs, ‘‘it grows in the Co. of Kerry on 
the Borders of Loghlen”’ (Dr. Molyneux) Appendix to 
Threlkeld 1726. Subsequent to this date Dr. Smith in 1756, 
as well as many later writers, constantly refer to the presence 
of the Arbutus about the Killarney lakes. 
Of the four Lusitanian species found in the south-west 
which are peculiar to Ireland, Arbutus Unedo is the most 
restricted in its range, and as a native of the British Isles is 
now well-nigh confined to the wooded shores of the Killarney 
Lakes. It occurs there pretty freely over an area roughly 
six or seven miles north and south, by four east and west, 
usually as a scattered bush or tree, but in one or two spots, 
notably about Brickeen Island in the Muckross demesne, 
it is quite the dominant feature in the vegetation. It occurs 
chiefly in association with Quercus sessiliflora, Yew, Holly 
and Birch, to which are not infrequently added the hybrid 
Oak, Ash, Mountain Ash, Aspen and Pyrus rupicola. A few 
outlying bushes on the eastern side of Lough Guitane and a 
solitary shrub on the northern slopes of the Reeks near the 
Gap of Dunloe, mark the extreme east and west limits of its 
present Killarney range. Outside this area it now occurs but 
sparingly in a few scattered localities, of which the shores of 
Lough Currane and the vicinity of Adrigole on Bantry Bay, 
are the most remote from its headquarters, both of them 
lying about 30 miles south-west of Killarney, while 
Glengarriff, a well known locality for this tree, is about 22 
miles to the south. Elsewhere in the British Isles, the 
