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labours by Professor Macoun's opinion of the usefulness of her work on 

 the vegetable productions of the country. She has also to acknowledge 

 the benefit derived from the pamphlet on the " Canadian Forest Trees,"' 

 by her respected friend, Dr. Hurlburt. Mr. Fletcher, with that zeal 

 for his favorite study which has already won for him so high a place 

 among the naturalists of Canada, and that kindness which shrinks from 

 no trouble and has won him so many friends, accepted the drudgery of 

 revising the work and seeing it through the press. 



The book is divided, for greater convenience, into four parts : — 

 " The Wild, or Native Flowers " ; " Flowering Shrubs " ; " Forest 

 Trees," and " Ferns." 



The \Vild, or Native Flowers and Flowering Shrubs, are arranged, 

 as a general rule, in the order in which they appear in the woods ; but it 

 has been thought that by grouping them somewhat in families, especially 

 where only a short mention is made of some species, it would be easier 

 to refer to them, than if this order were strictly adhered to. 



C. P. T. 



