PREFACE 



AFTER many interruptions this Sketch of 

 the phaenogamous plants of South-CaroHna and 

 Georgia has at length been terminated. It was 

 commenced when a work of this description was 

 much wanted,* it has been continued after that 

 want has been in a great measure supplied, from 

 a sense of obligation to those who had encour- 

 aged its publication. 



That this work should be imperfect was una- 

 voidable. The author has never had leisure or 

 opportunity to visit every portion of the district 

 whose plants it includes; he has had no access to 

 Botanic Gardens where he might observe and 

 examine those plants which had escaped his 

 own researches; he has been able to consult but 

 a very small number of the costly works, or 

 even of the journals in which in Europe descrip- 

 tions of the plants of North America are occa- 

 sionally published, and he has had no opportunity 

 of inspecting any herbarium but the one which 

 through the kindness of his friends and his own 

 exertions he has himself formed. Under such 

 circumstances it will not be surprising if he shall 



