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or with the title on the wrong margin. There are also errors in the plates 

 which a more careful revision as they were being printed would have 

 disclosed. We think too that it would have made the volume more useful 

 if every species of Vol. I had been at least mentioned again, and not only 

 those which required a note. The index might then have contained reference 

 to Vol. I direct, instead of being confined to the pages of the present volume 

 and plates in II. But while we point out these imperfections, which may 

 no doubt justly be put down in part at least to the author's ill-health, 

 we have only praise for the book as a whole and for the author's zeal 

 in producing such a work in his spare time. It contains much that is 

 of scientific value, with original notes on the natural history or habit 

 of the species never before made known, and by making the identification 

 of these plants easy should render possible a further and fuller study 

 of the ecology of this area. To the many real flower-lovers among the 

 residents and visitors of these hill-stations this third volume will give, as 

 we know the other two have given, much real pleasure and they especially 

 will be grateful to Mrs. Fyson for the labour of love involved in drawing 

 her 250 plates. 



Printed and Published for the Proprietor by W. L. King at the Methodist 

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