Lycopus.) LABIATA, 229 
LYCOPUS Linn. 
LL. europzeus Linn. Gipsywort. 
Districts I. II. WW. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. 
Native. Wet ditches, river-sides, swampy woods, pond 
margins, &c. Rather common, but local. Peren. July— 
September. 
First record in 1756: Dr. Smith, Hist. of Kerry, p. 379, 
No. 66. ‘In several places in the barony of Clanmaurice 
plentifully.” 
ORIGANUM Linn. 
QO. vulgare Linn. Marjoram. 
Districts I. WI. — — — [VI] [VII] — — 
Native. Limestone rocks and bushy places, and as a garden 
escape on walls. Very rare and local. Peren. July— 
September. Calcicole A. 
I. On limestone rocks by the Finnihy River below Ken- 
mare : R.W.S. 1890, and in 1913 ; sparingly in a field near 
Cleady east of Kenmare, 1890.—IJ. Abundant along the 
limestone rocks on the north side of the Finnihy west of 
Kenmare, 1901; on limestone rocks about Clashganniv, 
Kenmare Bay, 1889: R.W.S. [—VI. Killarney: Druce 
1907. Occurs in several places about Killarney, but seen 
there by R.W.S. only as a garden escape, on walls, &c., as 
by the railway arch over the Park road, at the Priory, about 
the ruins of Castlelough, &c., 1901-14.—VII. On banks near 
the Seafield gardens, Tralee Bay, 1888-1906: R.W.S.] 
First record in 1890: R.W.S., Journ. of Bot. 
Although strongly calcicole in Kerry, this plant appears 
to be absent as a native from the limestone about the 
Killarney Lakes and in the north. 
THYMUS Linn. 
T. Serpyllum Linn. Wild Thyme. 
Districts I. IT. IT. IV. V. VI. VI. Vill. IX. 
Native. Rocky places, sandhills, dry banks, pastures and 
mountain moorlands. Common, often abundant. Peren. 
July—September. 
From sea-level, to the summits of the highest mountains 
in the county, attaining 3,414 feet on Carrantuohill, Reeks 
(R.W.S.). 
First record in 1756: Dr. Smith, Hist. of Kerry, p. 382, 
No. 93. ‘“‘Common motherof thyme, in most of the islands 
of Lough-Lane, and on the adjacent hills plentifully.” 
