XX PREFACE. 
and herbaceous Plants, which are in- 
digenous to Ireland, on a plan similar 
to that of the Grasses, with the uses 
to which they were applied in medi- 
cine, &c. as appears from antient Irish 
manuscripts. 
I have had an opportunity of ac- 
quiring a knowledge of the medicinal 
virtues of many plants, in my occa- 
sional excursions to the country, and 
from the numerous applications which 
have been made for herbs in the 
Botanic gardens for the purposes of 
medicine, and have always taken a 
memorandum of the plants applied 
for, how used, the disorder, their ef- 
fect, &c. However, the publication of 
this work must be postponed until I 
am enabled to collect the proper ma- 
terials, such as their habitats, their 
uses in the different provinces, their 
common Irish names, &c. &c. 
