complete and inviting. A detailed account of the plan of the work 

 will be found on pages 52 to 55 of the Introduction, along with 

 " Instructions how to use this Book." Here, accordingly, I need not 

 go further into it, but simply refer the reader to the pages in question. 

 Let those Instructions be abided by, and the youngest botanist will 

 find himself at home in it directly. The large number of woodcuts 

 will also very materially aid his progress. They are almost whoUy 

 the work of local artists, doing great credit to Mr. R. Langton, 

 Mr. W. Morton, and Mr. J. W. Harland. The elegant title-page is 

 the work of the first-named. 



While making the book simple, due regard has been paid to 

 Botany as a noble Science. In this respect, the medical student, the 

 physiologist, and the floriculturist, will all find it valuable, and calcu- 

 lated to aid them in many of the most important branches of their 

 pursuits. No work is in existence where the idea and compass of 

 the Families, or ''Natural Orders" of plants, is exhibited more fully 

 for practical purposes. The arcana of Vegetable Physiology, and of 

 the minuter structure of plants, including matters that require the 

 microscope, occupy only a subordinate place. They come as a fine 

 supplement to Field Botany, but are not indispensable to it. The 

 student who would master these subjects, will find the works of 

 Dr. Balfour eminently well adapted to his purpose. 



The situations and modes of access to the various woods and moors, 

 valleys and doughs, referred to in this volume, are described in 

 its little companion, " Manchester Walks and Wild-flowers," pub- 

 lished simuItaucou3ly, and intended to introduce to the picturesque 

 beauty of the district, while the present one scientifically examines 

 the particular contents. It is one of the great charms and rewards of 

 Botany that we an) allured by it into sweet and delicious rural spots, 

 such as the rarest and choicest wild-flowers love to grow in. The 

 same little voluiiip may bo consulted for a portraiture of the peculiar 

 advantages of a knowledge of Botany. 



