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ingredient in various “‘ cups,” a novel reason for encouraging 
its growth in the garden was mentioned by an experienced 
bee-keeper living in the county who found that the pendent 
flowers allowed the bees to extract honey and pollen from 
them even in rainy weather, a consideration of no small 
importance in so wet a county. ] 
[MERTENSIA MARITIMA Gray.—IX. ‘‘ On the beach near 
Beal Castle”? (Dr. Smith) Hist. of Kerry, 1756, p. 375, 
No. 27. Not there now and no recent Kerry record known. 
The plant may very well have occurred there in Dr. Smith’s 
time and since died out. Like Crambe maritima, &c., the 
Mertensia appears to be one of several maritime species 
rapidly decreasing in Ireland.] 
MYOSOTIS Linn. 
M. cespitosa Schultz. 
Districts I. TI. WI. IV. V. VI. VIL. VIII. Ix. 
Native. In muddy ditches, margins of lakes, ponds and 
streams, &c. Common. Peren. June—September. 
From sea-level, to 750 feet on Connor Hill (R.W.S.). 
First record in 1901: R.W.S., Topog. Bot. 
M. palustris With. MM. scorpioides Linn. Forget-me-not. 
Districts I. IT. WI. — V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. 
Native. Muddy ditches, stream-sides and other wet places. 
Rare except in the north where it is rather common. Peren. 
June—August. 
I. Near the Cloonee Lakes, 1901, and by a small stream 
near Killowen east of Kenmare, 1899.—II. Near Gearameen, 
Upper Lake, Killarney, 1899.—III. Ditch south of Inny 
bridge, Waterville, 1892.—V. Beside the old Connor Hill 
road north-east of Dingle, and—VII. West of Boolteens, 
Castlemaine Harbour, 1890, and near Ardcrone south of 
Currans, 1903.—VIII. Riverside near Finuge west of Listowel 
and by the canal at Lixnaw, 1902.—IX. Rather frequent to 
the west of Listowel, &c., and in several places near Cashen 
Ferry bridge, 1904: R.W.S. 
First record in 1901: R.W.S., Topog. Bot 
This appears to be the rarest of the Kerry aquatic Forget- 
me-nots. 
Var. STRIGULOSA (Reichb.).— VI. Wet ditches in the Home 
Park, Killarney : R.W.S. 1902.—VII. Near Scrahan north of 
the Spa, Tralee Bay, 1890: R.W.S. , 
