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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 1901, Vol. 7: Third Series; Irish Topographical Botany This work may fairly be described as a companion to Cybele Hibemica. Its aim is to supply detailed information of such a kind, and in such a form, as lay outside the scope of that book. It was the publication of the second edition of Cybele Hibernica that made Irish Topographical Botany a possibility. In the absence of the immense amount of critical sifting, of sweeping away of errors, and settling of innumerable doubtful points, which the editors of Cybele accomplished, it would not have been possible to have produced the present work, at least single-handed, and in a period of five years. Furthermore, the publication of Cybele allowed the present work to be largely curtailed, and to include, so far as was consistent with its scheme and purpose only additional matter; the reader being referred to Cybele for information which it would have required further time to acquire, and further space to publish. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.