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PREFACE. 



IT is with considerable hesitation that I venture to print 

 the following List of Plants found in the neighbourhood of 

 Maiiborough. To obtain even a fairly correct list, a much 

 longer time than I have been able to devote to the subject, 

 and much assistance from the careful observation of others 

 are needed. I have, however, been induced to print the 

 results of my own observations during the past five years, 

 not from a belief that they will be of any great service else- 

 where, but with a hope that, by placing before the members 1 

 of this College a proof of the Botanical riches of our neigh- 

 bourhood, I may induce some of them to take an interest in 

 the study of Botany, and perhaps, indirectly through this, of 

 some other branch of Natural History. I am at the same 

 time anxious to make this List as perfect as possible, and 

 trust that, by publishing it at once, I may be enabled the 

 sooner to obtain assistance from those who have paid any 

 attention to the subject. I beg, therefore, to impress upon 

 any one who may take the trouble to examine this List, 



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