PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 
THE first edition of “ New Zealand Plants and their 
Story’ having been exhausted for some considerable 
time, and the insistent demand for a second edition by 
many interested in the wild plants of this country, has 
led to the book appearing under a new guise as the first 
of a series of Manuals to be published by the Board of 
Science and Art. 
This second edition is virtually a new book. The 
subject-matter has been rearranged and so much addi- 
tional information added that a far more connected 
account of the vegetation of New Zealand is presented 
than in the original work. 
Although the first edition early on became a text- 
book in the University colleges, this fact need not in 
the least alarm the non-scientific reader, for whom 
the book is primarily prepared. On the contrary, the 
original popular style has been carefully maintained ; 
technical terms, as before, are reduced to a minimum, 
and where used are explained, while the idea of the 
plants telling their own story is more strongly empha- 
sized than in the first edition. 
- The number of photographs has been increased from 
seventy-one to ninety-nine, of which fifty did not 
appear in the original book, and there are fourteen new 
text-figures. 
The reader will find certain statistics in some of the 
chapters. These figures I have not had an opportunity 
to carefully check, so some errors may have crept in. 
