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such other contracted words, such as Hb. or MS., not being names 

 of persons, which form part of the authority for a record. In the 

 case of the commoner plants, where only a general statement is 

 given regarding their distribution, italic type is used in a negative 

 sense, to emphasize the names of those divisions in which the plant 

 has not yet been found. 



The use of the words " rare," " frequent," &c., invariably 

 implies the existence of records additional to those which are given. 

 Conversely, the absence of such words may be taken to imply that 

 no stations are known to the compiler beyond those which are quoted. 

 Similarly, the expression " in the north and south " implies absence 

 of the plant from the middle portion of the area under considera- 

 tion ; and the term " frequent in the west" signifies, in the absence 

 of other information, that the plant is, as at present known, confined 

 to the west, where it is frequent. " North to south " implies an 

 absence of records from the eastern and western portions. 



Names of places. — It has frequently been necessary to curtail 

 the description of localities in published records : the name of a place 

 must generally be held to imply "at or near." When place-names 

 are not quoted from published records, an attempt has been made to 

 use names which will be found in Philips' " County Atlas of Ireland" 

 and the index thereto, in order to facilitate reference. 



Names of persons. — Surnames alone aregiven, except in eases 

 where more than one person of the same surname are mentioned. 

 Titles and prefixes are generally omitted, except " Miss " and 

 " Mrs." The full names will be found in the majority of cases in 

 the Bibliography, or in the list of contributors in the preface. The 

 author's name has been contracted to the letter "P." 



Contractions. — The following is a general list of contractions 

 employed : — • 



Names of authors : — 



B. & G. G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton and Miss L. S. Glascott. 



B. & M. Do. and C. B. Moffat. 



B. & M. jlf/S. Do. do. MS. material towards a flora of 



Co. "Wexford. 

 B. & V. E. M. Barrington and R. P. Vowell. 



M. & S. Eev. E. S. Marshall and Dr. W. A. Shoolbred. 



S. & P. S. A. Stewart and E. LI. Praeger. 



P. E. LI. Praeger. 



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