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Lough Derg is the lower of the two great lake-like expansions of the Shannon, the other, Lough Ree, lying further up the river. Save at its southern end, where he lake is embosomed in hills of Silurian slate, the winding shores are. formed of low-lying limestones, and the numerous islands arc composed of the same rock. Botanical interest centres on the low, uncultivated islets and reefs, and on the sloping, stony shores. Here a peculiar flora is developed, as the following list of abundant plants will show :

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Kerry a county of Ireland, province of Munster bounded E by Limerick and Cork, W by the Atlantic, N by the Shannon, which separates it from Thomond, and S by Desmond and the ocean, divided into 84 parishes. Chief rivers are Cashing, Lane, Roughy, and Mang. The south is a plain, and fertile in corn; but the greater part is mountainous, chiefly adapted for grazing. Considerable quantities of beef, butter, hides, and tallow, are exported. It sends 4 members to parliament. The Ciarrai invaded and occupied the region in early historical times. They claimed descent from Ciar, son of Fergus, a legendary king of Ulster. In the middle ages Kerry (Hotels, Kerry, Ireland) was divided between the kingdoms of Thomond in the north and Desmond in the south, dominated by the O’Briens and the McCarthys respectively. The Norman Fitzgeralds later dominated it.

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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.

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