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of learned men, from Clusius to Bory de Saint Vincent, the 
labourers have been too few for the abundance of the harvest. 
Since then, M. Rambur, a zealous Zoologist, and author of a . 
Fauna of Andalusia, has brought with him from the same 
country a valuable collection of plants; a part of which, owing 
to his kindness and that of M. Decaisne, I have been enabled 
to examine. M. Edmond Boissier of Geneva, last of all, in 
1837, has carefully explored the whole kingdom of Grenada; 
. and the botanical world will in a short time profit by the 
results of his interesting investigations, concerning which a 
short notice has already appeared in the Bibliothéque Univer- 
selle of Geneva, and the Composite in the Prodromus of Pro- 
fessor de Candolle. 
* Other pursuits and various accessory causes have retard- 
ed the study of my Spanish herbarium, and it was only 
towards the end of 1837, that I began to select from it the 
Species which appeared altogether undescribed, and such as 
seemed to need further illustration. The drawings and 
Plates of many of them are already finished, but as this is a 
Work of much outlay both of money and time, I have followed — 
the example of many esteemed authors, and anticipated its 
Publication by a Prodromus or Synopsis of its contents. 
. Such has been the origin and intention of this little tract; in 
executing it, I have added to it a list of such species as though 
` long known in other regions, were unlooked-for denizens of 
the Spanish soil; and others, concerning which it seemed 
desirable to have confirmed accounts, or precise localities. I 
have passed over most of those species which are common every- 
where on the borders of the Mediterranean, and many more 
which the imperfect nature of the specimens renders it diffi- 
cult to decide upon; nor have I named Portuguese plants, 
= when already cited by Brotero, except for some special pur- 
Pose either of elucidating rarer species, or of recording new 
stations, This little catalogue thus composed will perhaps. 
not be useless as tending to illustrate the vegetable geogra- - 
Phy ofthe northern hemisphere. On this account, I have fre- : 
quently insisted in the notes on the affinities, which have been ^ 
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