Carex.| CYPERACEZ. 331 
First record in Cyb. 1866: Moore. 
The long list of localities recorded above, is given to show 
that this northern sedge is not nearly so rare in Kerry as 
was formerly thought ; in fact, few of the wetter bogs in the 
county are without it. Like Drosera intermedia and Ryn- 
chospora fusca, it is very partial to the Sphagnum hollows 
which are often found in these floating bogs. 
C. pilulifera Linn. 
Districts I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIL IX. 
Native. Heaths and moors, chiefly in mountainous districts. 
Rather common, but rare in the extreme north. Peren. 
May—June. Calcifuge A. 
From sea-level, to 2,756 feet on Mangerton summit, to 
3,000 feet on Brandon (R.W.S.), and to 3,120 feet on the 
Reeks (Hart). 
First record in 1844: 8. P| Woodward, Phytol., p. 878. 
Var. LONGIBRACTEATA Lange—var. Lerstt Ridley.—IV. 
On Carrantuohill, Reeks, at 2,800 feet : Druce 1891. 
C. przcox Jacq. C. verna Chaix. CC. caryophyllea 
Latour. 
Districts JI. WW. WI. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX 
Native. Dry pastures, banks and heaths, &c. Rather 
common and locally abundant. Peren. April—May. 
From sea-level, to 950 feet on the Reeks (Hart), and 
probably higher. 
First record in 1882: Hart, Proc. R.I.A. 
A curious form of this plant was gathered on a heath 
south-east of Killarney, in which the stalks of the lowest 
spikes were fully two inches long and the sheaths of the 
bracts quite half an inch in depth ; it appears to be the form 
C. mollis Host. 
C. pallescens Linn. 
Districts I. I. UWI. IV. V. VI. — — — 
Native. In bushy or shady places and in moist spots on 
heaths and meadows. Widely but thinly distributed over 
the mountainous portion of the county, not yet noticed in 
the north. Peren. May—QJune. 
I. In Uragh wood by Inchiquin Lough : Hart 1885. Still 
. there in 1908, and near Dromoghty Lough south of Dawros ; 
sparingly on both sides of the estuary east of Kenmare and 
along the Roughty River, 1904; on Knockboy Mountain, 
&c., Slaheny valley, 1894-1907.—II. Sparingly on the south 
side of Lough Currane, 1900.—III. In several places on the 
Glenbeigh Mountains, as above Coomasaharn and Cooma- 
