PREY ACE. 
HIS little book is intended to give the beginner 
or the student of Nature Study a brief but 
clear insight into the characteristics of the better- 
known orders of British Wild Plants. As there are 
nearly a hundred orders, the difficulty of obtaining @ 
knowledge of all at first is a deterrent, which can be 
obviated by making a_ study of the more widely 
distributed and more familiar orders. 
Reference can easily be made to more compre- 
hensive works for the purpose later of becoming 
acquainted with the rarer representatives of the 
orders. And these will also be dealt with in a forth- 
coming work (in two volumes) in this series to be 
published very shortly. 
In the same way common types of each order have 
been chosen, so that it may be possible in any 
district to study the plants here described. 
The method of description is, moreover, I venture 
