Kerry Ireland

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.

Posted on April 16th, 2008 under Botany. Tags: Asia, British Isles, Co. Cork, Co. Dublin, Cornwall, Cumberland, Europe, Glengariff, Great Britain, Hebrides, Kerry, Kerry National Park, Killarney, Limerick, ork, Scotland, Wales, Waterford, West Corkm, Woodford. Comments: None