IV. 



observations, have constituted the chief materials for 

 these pages. I am also much indebted to many of my 

 botanical friends and acquaintances for several lengthened 

 and highly valuable communications, but it would occupy 

 too much space to particularize, in this place, each indi- 

 vidual who has given assistance,and it is fortunately the 

 less necessary, as I have invariably under particular 

 species duly acknowledged the claims of each contributor. 



Mr. DENIS MURRAY gardener toWiLLiAM M. REEVES 

 of Vosterburgh, Esq., a most intelligent and indefatigable 

 practical botanist, has with few exceptions contributed 

 the entire list of Fungi as well as many other important 

 additions to our Flora at various times, for which he has 

 received honorary prizes from the Cuvierian Society. 



In putting together these materials, I have adopted the 

 most approved natural arrangement; and the nomenclature 

 used by Mr. C. C. BABINGTON in his excellent Manual of 

 British Botany, which generally corresponds with that of 

 the London and Edinburgh Botanical Societies. For the 

 more common species I have omitted authorities, and 

 always given the nearest station to the City in which 

 they may be found ; thus making this little work, more 

 especially a Flora of the vicinity of Cork ; for the rarer 

 species I have given the stations with precision, and the 

 names of the first and subsequent discoverers in chrono- 

 logical order. 



The following comparative table of the number of 

 species contained in Mackay's Flora Hibernica, the lists of 

 Messrs. Drummond and Alexander, and the present 



