

PREFACE. 



Several of the earliest supporters of this Journal expressed a 

 wish that the annual issues should be accompanied with the 

 usual tables of Contents, List of Contributors, and the General 

 Index, that the work should be completed with the first number 

 for next January. 



lid accordance with this desire, the subscribers and purchasers 

 of the ' Phytologist ' will receive with the first Number for 1860, 

 Title, Contents, Index, etc., to complete the Series for 1859. 



Two years* numbers united would not make a very bulky 

 volume. Those who prefer having a larger book than one year's 

 issues will form, may bind both together, and the united volume 

 will be either, ' Phytologist,' vols. iii. and iv. of the New Series, 

 or ^Phytologist ' for 1859 and 1860. 



The General Table of Contents, together with the Index, will 

 show that the present year has not been unproductive of results; 

 but the summary of these is reserved, being intended to constitute 

 the leading or opening Article of the next year's Series. 



