348 GRAMINE. [Poa. 
From sea-level, to the summits of most of the higher 
mountains in the county, attaining 2,756 feet on Mangerton 
(R.W.S.), 3,127 feet on Brandon (Hart), and 3,200 feet on 
the Reeks (More). 
First record in 1881 : Barrington, Proc. R.I.A. 
Var. supIna Gaud. Frequent on the higher mountains. 
P. alpina Linn. 
District — — — — VY — — — — 
Native. On a rocky mountain summit. Very rare indeed. 
Peren. July—August. 
V. ‘On the summit of Brandon, near the well, on a rock 
thinly covered with earth, in September, 1804, not at all 
viviparous ’’: Mackay Rar. 1806. On Brandon Mountain, 
Aug., 1856 (7. Wright) Carroll, Phytol. 1857, p. 76. “‘ On 
an isolated crag a few feet below the summit (Colgan) Dub. 
Univer. Rev. 1886, p. 738—=still on this crag, but very 
sparingly, 1905: R.W.S. 
At 3,100 feet above sea-level (Mackay). 
First record in 1806: Mackay Rar. 
No doubt all the above records refer to the same spot— 
an exposed fissured rock a few square feet in area—where 
this grass appears to benow dying out. It is likely, however, 
that some other station for it will be found on the fine range 
of cliffs of which Brandon mountain forms the summit. 
This is the most southerly locality known in the British Isles 
for Poa alpina which elsewhere in Ireland occurs only on 
the Sligo mountains. 
P. nemoralis Linn. 
Districts I. — — — — VWI. VIL — — 
Alien. Woods and shady places in demesnes and gardens. 
Very rare. Peren. July—August. 
I. Rather sparingly in Ardtully grounds, Kilgarvan, a 
little to the west of the House and near the river, 1904 : 
R.W.S. 1908.—VI. Plentifully on a bank in the “ Sunk 
Walk,” in the pleasure grounds of Glenflesk Castle, Killarney, 
1888-1912, and now spreading to the neighbouring shrub- 
beries and woods ; plentiful among Rhododendrons, &c., a 
little to the west of Lord Kenmare’s stables and sparingly 
under trees in two or three spots in the surrounding woods, 
Home Park, Killarney : R.W.S8. 1902, and in 1910 ; sparingly 
by walks, &c., in the flower garden at Southhill, Killarney, 
1909: &.W.S. Sparingly in the grounds of Lahard House 
north of Beaufort, 1911-12: Mrs. Jenner.—VII. Sparingly 
in the wooded portion of the ‘‘ Green,”’ Tralee: R.W.S. 1908. 
First record in 1901: R.W.S., Topog. Bot. 
