318 CYPERACE. [Scirpus. 
common, except in the north where it has not been noticed. 
Peren. June—July. 
From sea-level, to about 1,000 feet in Lough Akinkeen in 
the Slaheny valley (&.W.S.). 
First record in 1901: R.W.S., Topog. Bot. 
S. Tabernemontant Gmel. 8. glaucus Smith. 
Districts I. UW. IT. — V. — VII. VHT. IX. 
Native. Lakes, pools, sluggish streams and ditches by the 
sea. Rathercommon. Peren. June—July. 
First record in 1884: Hart, Proc. R.I.A. 
More widely distributed in the county than the preceding 
plant, occurring at intervals all round the Kerry coast. 
S. maritimus Linn. Sea Club-rush. 
Districts I. II. WT. — V. — VI. VII. IX. 
Native. Brackish ditches, marshes, tidal rivers, &c. 
Common and locally abundant. Peren. July—August. 
First record in 1884: Hart, Proc. R.I.A. 
This plant has not been noticed in Kerry in any locality 
certainly removed from maritime influence. It occurs as 
far inland, however, as Sleveen, Lixnaw, &c., the latter place 
nearly eight miles distant from the nearest sea ; but all this 
district is very low-lying and was, no doubt, subject to tidal 
flooding before the present very extensive embankments 
were completed. On the Continent it appears to grow 
irrespective of maritime influence, being found in many 
inland stations in Germany, Switzerland, &c. 
8S. rufus Schrad. Blysmus rufus Panz. 
Districts — I. — — Vv. — — Vil — 
Native. Salt marshes and damp sandy ground near the sea. 
Rare but locally abundant. Peren. July—August. 
II. About the east end of Darrynane estuary: R.W.S. 
1890.—V. In a swamp by the stream from Castlegregory 
Lake ; swamp at Castle Gallerus near Smerwick Harbour and 
about the head of the estuary between Dingle Harbour and 
Bull’s Head : Hart 1884. In several localities about Castle- 
gregory, 1902, and in damp sandy flats among the Ventry 
sandhills, 1905.—VIII. About Rahoneen estuary, abundant 
in damp hollows in the Banna sandhills and in marshes about 
Akeragh Lake, Ballyheige Bay : R.W.S. 1888, and in 1902. 
First record in 1884: Hart, Proc. R.J.A. 
This plant, which belongs to Watson’s Scottish or northern 
group, reaches in Kerry its extreme southern limit in the 
British Isles, more than a degree of latitude separating the 
nearest station in England from its Darrynane locality. 
