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REMARKS ON THE SECOND EDITION OF " CYBEEE 

 HIBERNICA," ESPECIAEIvY WITH REFERENCE 

 TO THE FLORA OF CO. DONEGAL. 



BY H. C. HART, B.A., F.I^.S. 



This admirable and much- needed volume has been brought 

 out with the most painstaking care, and will long remain the 

 standard work of reference upon Irish topographical botan3\ 

 The laborious research involved in the verification of the 

 I St Edition records has been undertaken conscientiousl}^ 

 together with the sorting and inclusion of a vast amount of 

 original material. Considering the difficulties arising out of 

 the sifting of evidence, the interpretation of dubious infor- 

 mation, and the unravelling of problems arising out of what 

 must have been a wide and varied correspondence, the 

 wonder is how few errors there are to be detected. 



There are, however, a few, which maj^ as well be at once 

 pointed out, and there are also a few positions taken up by 

 the authors upon which I wish to comment. But especialh^ I 

 think it will be useful to summarize certain additions and 

 alterations, in connection with the flora of Donegal, which my 

 recent researches have enabled me to make. These are, it is 

 true, to be found in my recently published Flora of Donegal, 

 which did not appear in time to be utilized for the purposes 

 of this volume, but they will be convenientl}^ rehearsed in 

 separate form. 



Up to the date of the death of my lamented friend, Mr. 

 A. G. More, I had furnished him for the purposes of this 

 volume which he unhappil}^ did not live to complete, with all 

 my notes and specimens from Donegal, Since that time 

 (1895) I have published nothing, save a few stra}^ notes on the 

 subject. 



There are several new departures. One of these, the insertion 

 of Irish plant-names, will be of much interest to a certain 

 class of readers. It is to be hoped it will induce some 

 competent student to take up the subject w4th thoroughness. 

 The editors have, as they themselves admit in the Intro- 

 duction, attacked the subject merely tentativel)'. An explana- 

 tion of such names, together with collections not merely from 

 existing dialects, but from such writers as Threlkeld, K'Eogh, 



