VIU PREFACE. 



Intended especially for the district eighteen miles round Man- 

 chester, the work is not useless leyond that limit. Not until a 

 perfectly different geological condition of surface is reached, such as 

 that of Derbyshire and the limestone parts of Yorkshire, is there any 

 material change in the character of the Flora, or any considerable 

 addition to it ; the book will serve therefore as a botanical guide very 

 generally. The plants of Southport, Blackpool, Southshore, and 

 other places on the coast, which are now almost a part of Manchester, 

 are enumerated and described in the Appendix. 



I have merely to add, that I shall be glad to supply information as 

 a private friend to any young botanist who may desire it. 



85, RuMFOHD Street, Manchkster, 

 March 2Sth, 1859. 



