PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. ll 
learned works on the subject when desired, and a foundation 
laid for more extended knowledge. If the beginning of a 
study is rendered easy and attractive (though it may still be 
in a scientific plan), many will be drawn to the pursuit who 
would be repulsed by meeting with difficulties. There is 
ample scope in botany even for the mind of a philosopher; 
but a simple introduction need not on this account be 
despised, or considered trivial. 
The author, therefore, presents a second edition of her 
work to the public, carefully revised, hoping that it may 
prove a useful aid in the pursuit of an interesting study ; 
and, feeling gratified by the favour with which it has been: 
received, she desires to recommend the prettily illustrated 
volumes on Entomology, Ornithology, and Algology, suc- 
ceeding it in the series of elementary works on Natural 
History to which Popular Field Botany formed the intro- 
aluction. 
