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has been confined to the common and gene- 

 rally distributed species, leaving out of sight 

 the rarer species, and also those plants 

 which in all places are confined to cultivated 

 ground or the neighbourhood of the sea. 



When closing his introduction to the 

 " Flora of Shetland," Edmondston expressed 

 his regret that the limits of the book did 

 not permit him to point out more fully the 

 peculiarities of the distribution of Shetland 

 plants. This is also the regret of the 

 present writer, but, as his commission was 

 more to revise, translate and amend, than 

 to add further material, any fuller remarks 

 must be postponed to such time as he can 

 do so without changing the original form 

 of the book. 



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