336 CYPERACES. (Carex. 
From sea-level, to 2,550 feet on the Reeks and to 2,650 
feet on Caherconree, Slieve Mish range (Hart). 
First record in 1806: Mackay Rar. 
This is usually a tall growing plant in Kerry, very similar 
to, if not identical with, the var. LEPIDOCARPA (Tausch) ; 
it differs much in the distance between the fertile spikes and 
in the length of stalk in the male spikelets. 
C. Gderi Retz. 
Districts I. — Til. IV. V. VI. Vil. — IX, 
Native. Boggy and swampy ground, lake margins, &c. 
Rather common. Peren. May—June. 
First record in 1844: S. P. Woodward, Phytol., p. 878. 
This sedge most probably occurs throughout the county 
and will, no doubt, be found to ascend as high on the 
mountains as the closely allied C. flava. The small cxspitose 
plant is abundant in many localities around the margins of 
the Killarney Lakes, but the prevailing form in Kerry is a 
much taller plant, probably referable to the var. @DOCARPA 
Anders. 
C. filiformis Linn. C. lasiocarpa Ehrh. 
Districts — II. I. IV. — VI. — VII. — 
Native. Margins of lakes, sluggish streams and in swamps. 
Rare but locally abundant. Peren. May—June. 
II. Along the extreme south end of the Upper Killarney 
Lake and abundant round Lough Beg, a little to the south 
of this: R.W.S. 1890, and in 1904. Almost filling a small 
lake or swamp, Lough Coad, north of West Cove, Kenmare 
Bay, 1907: &.W.S.—ITI. & IV. Lough Carra [Caragh], 
County of Kerry (J. Drummond) Flor. Hib. 1836—most 
probably along the sluggish river at the southern extremity 
of this lake——VI. Along the Back Channel, Lower Lake, 
Killarney, 1899: R. A. Phillips & R.W.S., and in 1912.— 
VIII. Abundant in a swamp where the railway crosses the 
River Brick near Lixnaw : k.W.S. 1891, and in bog ditches 
between Sleveen and the River Brick near Ballyduff, 1904 : 
RWS. 
First record in 1836: J. Drummond, Flor. Hib. 
This Carex has not been seen recently in Drummond’s 
station about Caragh Lake, but is likely enough to occur 
there. At present it is known for certain only from the 
neighbourhood of the Killarney Lakes, the River Brick and 
an outlying station near Kenmare Bay. 
