Carex.) CYPERACE. 327 
C. ovalis Good. C. leporina Linn. 
Districts I. II. QW. IV. V. VI. VII. VII. IX. 
Native. Wet meadows and pastures, marshy places, road- 
ace &c. Common, sometimes abundant. Peren. May— 
une. 
From sea-level, to 1,450 feet by the Priestsleap road and 
to 1,480 feet in the upper Roughty valley (R.W.S.). 
First record in 1882: Hart, Proc. R.I.A. 
One of the most abundant of the Kerry sedges, forming 
sometimes no inconsiderable portion of the herbage in poor 
wet pastures. 
Var. capirata Sonder—IT. On damp sand-flats near 
Dooaghs, Castlemaine Bay (Marshall & R.W.S.) R.W.S. 1904. 
C. Hudsonii Ar. Benn. C. stricta Good. C. elata All. 
Districts — Il. — IV. — VI. — ~— — 
Native. Lake margins and marshy places. Rare and local. 
Peren. May—June. 
II. In several spots about the southern extremity of the 
Upper Lake, Killarney, 1901.—IV. Sparingly by Coosaun 
Lake, Gap of Dunloe, 1909: R.W.S.—VI. “ At the bottom 
of Turc mountain growing among stones by the side of the 
lake, Aug. 1805” : Mackay Rar. In several localities about 
the Killarney Lakes, as about Tore Lake, in Muckross 
demesne, at O’Sullivan’s Punch Bowl on the Back Channel, 
about Cromaglan valley and the Upper Lake, &c., but 
nowhere abundant : R.W.S. 1889, &c., and in 1912. 
First record in 1806: Mackay Rar. 
Almost confined in Kerry to the neighbourhood of the 
Killarney Lakes. 
C. acuta Linn. C. gracilis Curt. 
Districts — — I — — VW ~ — — 
Native. Wet places. Very rare and local. Peren. May— 
June. 
III. Sparingly on the west side of Caragh Lake near its 
upper end, 1889: R.W.S.—IV. Killarney (Babington) Cyb. 
1866. Sparingly near a small pond, joined to the lake at 
high-water, a little east of Ross Island, Killarney : R.W.S. 
1889—“ an abnormal form” (Ar. Bennett). 
First record in Cyb. 1886 : Babington. 
Apparently one of the rarest sedges in the county and 
occurring in very small quantity in the few localities in which 
it has recently been observed, although in its Irish stations 
outside of Kerry it usually appears in abundance. The 
record for this plant in R.W.S. 1888, was intended for 
C. Hudsonti, 
