

PREFACE. 



DR. C. SMITH in his History of Cork in 1750, DR. 

 W. WADE in his Plantse Rariores Hiberniac 1804, 

 and Mr. J. T. MACKAY in 1806, noticed a few of 

 the rarer native plants of the County of Cork ; but 

 there was no attempt at a systematic catalogue of our 

 Flora till 1819 20, when Mr. JAMES DRUMMOND 

 curator of the then existing Cork Botanic Garden, and 

 now Colonial Botanist at Swan River, published a list of 

 our FLOWERING PLANTS in the Munster Farmers Maga- 

 zine. Vols. vi & vii. 



Doctor SCOTT of Cove gave a comprehensive catalogue 

 of the native plants of the Great Island in 1 833 : and our 

 townsman, Mr. H. T. ALEXANDER, now Surgeon in the 

 Royal Navy, presented to the Cuvierian Society of this 

 City, a list embracing the entire Flora of the County, 

 (the Fungi excepted,) for which an honorary prize was 

 awarded by the Society, 



These catalogues, a collection of manuscript botanical 

 notes by the Rev. Dr. HINCKS, which he has kindly 

 permitted me the use of, and the records of the Cuvierian 

 Society, together with my own extensive practical 



