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PREFACE. 
HE appearance of the first number of a Third Edition of 
‘English Botany” calls for a few remarks upon the mode 
in which it is proposed to conduct the re-issue of this great 
work. 
Kach Part will contain twenty-four plates, and on an average 
twenty-four pages of letterpress. The plates will be all carefully 
examined by the Editor, and errors in outline or colour corrected. 
At the time when the work was first published, characters taken 
from the fruit were not so much employed in distinguishing 
species as at present, and in general no figures of fruit were 
given: this will now be remedied. Magnified representations of 
the organs will also be added where necessary. 
Plates of the whole of the flowering plants figured in the 
original edition (with a few exceptions noticed below), and those 
in the four volumes of the “Supplement to English Botany,” 
will now be given, and also those which Mr. Saurer has in 
preparation for the fifth volume of the ‘“ Supplement.” 
In several instances entirely new plates will be required, some 
of the original ones being too incorrect; and some species have 
not yet been figured for this work. When these new plates are 
not ready at the time when the Part to which they belong 
should appear, twenty-four plates will still be issued, but their 
numbers will not be consecutive, "and those which are wanting 
will be given subsequently, as soon as examples of the plants 
can be obtained from which drawings may be made. By attending 
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