Vlil PREFACE. 



Among the other means of our research, we have twice dredged 

 the British ('haiinel, from Berry Head to the (iueriisea islands: 

 and it may be olijected to us that we have enumerated as British, 

 some few individuals found on their shores. Like the products of 

 Ireland, andtlie remote islands of Scotland, although they are not 

 strictly English, they may justly be denominated British. Da 

 Costa Donovan, and Montagu have admitted tliem as such, 

 j^isler has marked them as English, and the President of the 

 LiLinean Society has included in his Flora Britannica the plants 

 peculiar to Guernsey and Jersey. 



Far removed from learned books and learned men, with no 

 friendly glance to check our exuberances or supply our deficien- 

 cies, some few errors have questionless eluded our detection; 

 and we submit our endeavours to render this interesting study 

 classically intelligible, to the correction of such as have better 

 means and better authority. 



