PREFACK. 
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LikE the Flora of Dublin, the present work owes its inception 
to the late Alexander Goodman More, justly described as the 
foremost inspirer and guide of botanical research in Ireland 
for a generation. To his wide knowledge of the Irish flora 
and keen interest in its investigation he added a personal 
charm which attracted all with whom he came in contact, 
and it is almost solely due to his encouragement and his 
-often expressed wish that the researches were begun which 
at length bear fruit in this volume. 
The earliest botanical visit to Kerry of which there is record 
appears to have been made by Edward Lhwyd in 1699, and 
from this early date to the present time the county has con- 
tinued to attract Irish and British botanists not alone by the 
exceptional interest of its flora but also by the beauty of the 
surroundings in which some of its most characteristic plants are 
found. Several of these visitors have given us more or less 
complete plant-lists of the districts they examined, but large 
areas remained unvisited, and it has been left to the writer to 
undertake the first botanical survey of this extensive county 
as a whole, an investigation that has engaged portions of fully 
twenty-five years. The results of these researches, both 
ancient and modern, are embodied in the present Flora of 
Kerry. 
For assistance in the preparation of this work, my thanks 
are especially due to Mr. Nathaniel Colgan whose generous 
help includes not alone co-operation in the field, but also 
useful suggestions as to the form of the present-flora and care- 
ful revision of its proofs. His Flora of Dublin has been selected 
by the writer as a model out of many similar works examined. 
Others to whom my special thanks are due include Mrs. 
Jenner, Miss Delap, the Rev. E. S. Marshall and Mr. R. A. 
Phillips, all of whom have helped with much field work and 
local notes. The following too have contributed in different 
ways towards the completion of this flora, Lady Godfrey, the 
Misses Magill, Miss O’Connell, the Rev. W. E. Bentley, Mr. 
D. Cronin Coltsmann, Mr. H. Crookshank, Mr. St. John 
