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indispensable adjunct to the work itself; for it will serve to 

 shew the unlearned how far innovations in nomenclature are 

 fit to be adopted, and which of the alterations that have from 

 time to time been actually admitted into the work, appear, 

 upon deliberate consideration, to deserve perpetuation. The 

 number of errors requiring correction is not considerable, 

 but it will be found, by a reference to the index, that they 

 have been made unsparingly, and without the least regard 

 to personal considerations. 



It has appeared to the Editor desirable to take advantage 

 of this opportunity, for publishing at once a detailed account 

 of the vegetation of one of the most interesting of the 

 British Colonial possessions, from which multitudes of seeds 

 are now continually arriving, and of which it is absolutely 

 necessary for the lover of gardens to have some knowledge, 

 if he w ould avoid the vexation of buying plants of no value 

 under high sounding and imposing names. It is probable 

 that for some years to come, few species deserving culti- 

 vation, will be received from Swan River, beyond such as 

 are noticed in this Appendix, which will therefore, it is 

 hoped, form a useful guide to purchasers in this country, 

 and enable those who reside in the colony, or who have 

 friends there, to judge on the one hand what to send home, 

 and on the other, what to ask their correspondents to 

 collect. 



The utility of such a work to those who wish to become 

 acquainted with the Botany of the Swan River Colony, for 

 colonial or mercantile purposes, does not require to be 

 insisted on. 



