PUBLISHERS' NOTE. 



The following Volume, containing the descriptions of British Crypto- 

 gamous Plants, completes the 3rd Edition of ' English Botany ' 

 within the limits proposed by its Editor, Mr. Boswel] (Syme) , with the 

 exception of such supplementary and additional matter as the progress 

 of time since its publication has rendered necessary. Unfortunately, 

 the failure of Mr. Boswell's health prevented him from finishing his 

 work, and its completion is due to Mr. N. E. Brown, of the Royal 

 Herbarium, Kew, who had previously undertaken the drawings of 

 some of the plants, and has ably supplemented the incomplete 

 descriptions. 



He has also undertaken the arduous work of revising the Latin 

 Indices of the several Volumes which now, incorporated with the 

 English indices, and with a new one of French and German names, 

 furnish for the first time a complete Index to the whole work. 



