INTRODUCTION. 



of plants to lurnish suitable exercises in botanical analyses. 

 The publisher knowing that Mrs. Phelps, (formerly Mrs. Lin- 

 coln,) was about giving to teachers of Common Schools a se- 

 ries of Lectures on the best methods of teaching the natural 

 sciences, applied to her to prepare a " Botany for Beginners," 

 one that should serve to instruct the Teacher as well as the 

 pupil. He now offers to the public this volume, not indeed 

 with the expectation that it will give an enlarged view of the 

 science of Botany, but serve as an introduction to the "Fami- 

 liar Lectures," Eaton's Manual, and other larger works. 

 Hartford, April, 1833. 



The first edition of the Botany for Beginners having been 

 sold in less than six months from its publication, and a second 

 having been disposed of with equal rapidity, the publisher of- 

 fers to the public a third, and in some respects a much improv- 

 ed, edition. The author has bestowed much pains in its re- 

 vision, correcting where former editions were defective, and 

 adding much new and valuable matter. Besides many useful 

 remarks interspersed throughout the work, she has added to the 

 different genera here noticed, their various significations and 

 derivations. In its present amended form it is believed to unite 

 all the requisites of a compendious and useful introduction for 

 beginners in the popular science of which it treats. 



Hartford, July, 1835. 



