Prospectus, 
ANNE PRATT'S 
FLOWERING PLANTS, 
GRASSES, 
SEDGES & FERNS 
OF 
GCHrHAT BeltTrA TN. 
EDITED AND REVISED BY 
EDWARD STEP, F.L.S. 
WITH 315 COLOURED PLATES. 
REDUCED COVER OF WEEKLY ISSUE, 
In royal 8vo., containing about 1,100 pages, and 315 full-page Plates, beautifully printed 
in the Natural Colours, and four pages of Black and White Diagrams. 
Lonpon: FREDERICK WARNE & CO., 15, Beprorp Srreer. 
SST 
loans recent years many works popularly describing our Wild 
Flowers have been published, and several of these have met with 
a very gratifying reception at the hands of the public. But even the 
most successful of these fails in one respect—incompleteness. The most 
grateful reader of these books constantly experiences their inadequacy, 
when he finds his specimens are neither figured nor described therein. 
Pratt’s Flowering Plants of Great Britain, alone among modern 
illustrated works of this class, takes the reader right through the British 
Flora, including in that term not only the native herbs, shrubs, and trees, 
but also the grasses, ferns and fern-allies (Horsetails, etc.). Such a work, 
dealing with so large a subject in ordinary language, and not ignoring the 
folk-lore, the historical, legendary, and poetical associations of the plants, 
must of necessity be lengthy and costly, especially if adequately illustrated. 
In spite of both extent and cost, the suecess of previous editions, the first 
of which was issued at £3 15s., encourages the publishers to isgue 
