Botany in Kerry
The rarest plant of the lake shores is Inula salicina, which occurs in many places. Although this species ranges widely in Europe and Asia, it is unknown elsewhere in the British Isles. And other rare plants arc the American Sisyrinchium tingiistifoliiim, which grow in several places, being abundant along the Woodford river. Among bryologists, the name of Killarney is famous as the. home of a wonderfully rich moss flora, rich not only in rare species, but on account of the delightful profusion and luxuriance in which many of them grow. The neighbourhood of Glengariff, lying in Co. Cork, 20 miles to the southward, and like Killarney a sheltered, richly-wooded spot, 
repeats in some degree the flora of the former place, and when other portions of the remarkably mild, damp valleys of Kerry (Holiday Homes, Kerry, Ireland) and West Cork come to be well explored, no doubt fresh stations for many of the Killarney rarities will be found. Among the most interesting mosses of this south-western district (Kerry and Cork) are: Trichostomum hibernicum (not known anywhere else), Daltonia splach-noides (Co. Dublin is the only other station in the British Isles), Leptodontium recur vifolium, Trichostomum fragile, Barbula Hornschuchiana, Ulota Ludwigii, U. calvescens, (Edipodium Griffith! anum, Philonotis Wil-soni (elsewhere in the British Isles in Merioneth and Forfar only), P. rigida, P. seriata, Weber a Tozeri, Ditrichum tortile, Campylopus Schimperi, C. Shawii (elsewhere in the British Isles known from the Hebrides one), C. introflexus (unknown elsewhere in Ireland : in Great Britain in N. Wales only), Dicranum flagellare, Fissidens 
polyphyllus, Campy lostelium saxicola, Bryum fine, B. Mildeanum, Sematophyllum demissum (in Ireland only here ; N. Wales ; Cumberland), S. micans also unknown elsewhere in Ireland ; in Great Britain occurs in Cumberland and the West Highlands), and Hypnum hamulosiim.
The following may be mentioned also : Tortula gracilis Limerick), Dicranum schisti (S. Tipperary), Bryum Duvalii (Waterford, only Irish station), the beautiful hookeria Icetevirens (confined in Great Britain to Kerry (Holiday Cottages, Kerry, Ireland), Cork, Waterford, and 
Cornwall, with a tropical range road), and the calcicolc Ezirhynchium striatulum (Kerry and Limerick).
The south-west of Ireland, and the county of Kerry (Holiday Apartments, Kerry, Ireland) in particular, is the richest and most interesting ground for hepatics to be found in the British Isles. This is mainly the result of the extremely mild, moist conditions which prevail there, and the rarest species which occur, if they are found elsewhere at all, belong to countries to the southward. Some of these are unknown elsewhere : others are found nowhere else in the British Isles ; many others, again, have here their only Irish station. Some of the species range up the west coast, and a few of these reappear in western Scotland. Some of the rarest species occur in extraordinary abundance.