TO’ THE READER 
TuesE Papers were the medium of weekly 
communication, during a Spring and Summer, 
between the writer and a number of persons 
of whom many are personally known to him; 
hence they have acquired a conversational 
style. They aim at giving simple but accurate 
information respecting the principal Natural 
Orders and Genera of our British Flora, with 
occasional references, chiefly in the earlier 
papers, to the place of the plants in the Lin- 
nzan System. A few notices of familiar or 
remarkable foreign and garden plants are 
added under the respective Orders. 
The method adopted has been to describe 
plants which were in bloom at the time, and 
to notice, with these, other species and genera 
of the same Natural Order. The work is 
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