TO 
JAMES BRODIE OF BRODIE, Esa. 
OF BRODIE HOUSE, NORTH BRITAIN, 
A GREAT PORTION OF WHOSE LONG AND VALUABLE LIFE HAS 
BEEN DEVOTED WITH THE MOST ARDENT ENTHUSIASM TO THE 
CULTIVATION AND ADVANCEMENT OF THE SCIENCE OF BOTANY, 
THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED, 
IN MEMORIAL OF 
THE UNALTERABLE REGARD AND ESTEEM 
OF 
THE AUTHOR, 
