LECTORI BENEVOLO. 



JJcsCRiPTtONKS plani.irum ex autopsul iiisiiiulas, ot imprimis 



Iconibus accuratis Ulustratas, in aagcmUlb et dilucidaiidanu 

 Itoianiccm maxime prodesse nemo sane inficias il-ii. Ex hoc 

 diiplici proroov^ndsania'nissinuo sciciiiix hkhIo, priorcm suscc- 

 pit ccfcbeir.CUiaK)UiV5,remullffiopcrffetdiutnrnilaborisDon 

 dclerriius. Edito jam primo StstbjUTIS katOBaMS vi:ci,tuh- 

 i.iiM voluminc satis superaueS proliaiiir, quantum, per sceutura 

 pnestaniissuni opens volumina, ejl nitons el augment! naculra 

 tk Scientia. El enim an^vnlgat&kHige '<ip<n-miTieii.sli.iW'biiur 

 opus, in quo vcgctabilia omnia huciisquc in orl« lolo dclccla, 

 jnM;i methodicam I'ainiliarum natiiraliuin scriem digcsla, ct 



■deb affioitalum, nee arbitrarii s*ntemaiis legibus adslricla, per 



r;u^:i«-rrsgi'iirriuii,specieruin variciaiuiuqucrcbenaelaboratoa, 

 descripiiones autopsicas, annotaUones qriticas, synonymiam 

 clironologiaun, demumque curauorem habitaUonam dtsigna- 

 lioncm, no&cere el dignoscere Iwianicis dabitur. 



Nos autem, studio atbaue scientia osiosn subsecivi temporis 

 luTas permulcere solili, quantum licuit, cuuiulandis scpvancus' 

 que in Musseo nosiro rebus lwtanicis, curain indeoncuter im- 

 pendimuaj umle factum rsi, m herbaria nostra, sive sumptibui 

 privatis, aye dolus, ourtun in moduni ciTsccreiit. 



