BOTANY. 
TREATING as it does of the richest and most 
beautiful of the three Kingdoms of Nature, we need 
sing no poeans in praise of Botrany.— Whether 
the facility with which the materials for its study 
may be collected is considered, (and in no part of 
Great Britain are they found in greater profusion 
and variety than in the district whose elucidation is 
the object of the present work,)—or the constant 
occupation and amusement it is capable of affording, 
thro’ every season of the year,—whether as fur- 
nishing a motive for exercise—a theme for conver- 
sation—or a subject for private study—it is alike 
interesting and important. 
In the following list, the arrangement of the 
““Frora Devontensis”’ is followed, and the 
plants have been selected chiefly on account of their 
beauty, rarity, or local interest, so as to give the 
leading and peculiar features, as it were, of our rich 
