The collections on which this report is based were made chiefly during the summer of the year 1900, some of the work, however, having been done some years earlier. It is the hope of the author that he may in the course of time be able to supply a complete account of the flora of the county —one which will be exhaustive to the last detail. Heretofore such an undertaking has not been possible for him. The work has been done in the intervals of other work and has taken into account chiefly the more common species. It is here presented as preliminary to the more complete report which, it is hoped, will follow it. The grasses and sedges have been purposely reserved for a separate report
