Pilularia.] MARSILEACEZ. 385 
merged in its Killarney stations, it may be seen covering 
large tracts of the exposed margins of the Long Range after 
a long spell of dry weather. The actual range of this plant 
in Kerry is very limited being quite confined, so far as at 
present known, to the Killarney Lakes. Elsewhere in Ireland 
it is on record only from west Galway and a few of the 
northern counties. 
CHARACE S&S. 
CHARA Linn. 
C. fragilis Desv. 
Districts I. Ul. TI. IV. V. VI. VIL. VIII. Ix 
Native. Lakes, pools, ditches, sluggish streams, &c. Rather 
common over the greater portion of the county, but local 
in the north. June—August. 
From sea-level, to 1,100 feet in Lough Nageeha on the 
Paps Mountain (2.W.S.). 
First record in Groves 1880: Moore. 
Var. CAPILLACEA Coss. & Germ.—I. In Cloonee Lough: 
Praeger 1902. Near Morley’s Bridge in the Roughty valley, 
1894.—III. Near the mouth of the River Inny north of 
Waterville and near Ballinskelligs, 1889.—V. In several 
places about Ventry, 1905.—VI. In several localities in the 
Killarney Lakes, 1887-1904: &.W.S.—probably not un- 
common in the county. 
Var. DELIcATULA Braun.—VIII. Lerrig pond north of 
Ardfert, 1914: R.W.S. 
Var. BARBATA Gant.—V. Near Ventry (D. M‘Ardle) Groves 
1895, 
C. aspera Willd. 
Districts ~- — II — V. VI. — VII. — 
Native. Lakes, pools and ditches. Rare, but locally 
abundant. July—August. 
III. In a sandhill pool near Black Point, Rossbehy : 
R.W.S. 1889.—V. In. Castlegregory Lake (Moore) Groves 
1880—abundant in this lake: R.W.S. 1889, and in 1907.— 
VI. In several localities in the Lower Lake and in the old 
mine holes on Ross Island, Killarney : R.W.S. 1888, and in 
1909.—VIII. In a roadside bog-ditch between Sleveen and 
the River Brick, 1908: &.W.S. 
First record in Groves 1880: Moore. 3 
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