IV. 



In the Flora, or Catalogue of Plants, the authority for the locality 

 of each plant is placed after it in italics, except in the localities 

 vouched for by myself. Where several localities, severed by a semi- 

 colon ( ; ), succeed each other, the authority following the latter or last 

 of them belongs to all. A colon and dash ( : ) separate localities 

 supplied by different authorities. 



In the Latin names of plants, a severer orthography than usual 

 has been followed, by writing i and not y in such words as silvaticus and 

 silvestris. Epithymus has been used instead of Epithymum, as the latter 

 is incorrect in form. Erigeron and some other masculine nouns ending 

 in on, occasionally mistaken as neuter, are correctly given. Care has 

 been taken to prevent errors of another class creeping in. For such as 

 ought to have been detected by me, and have not been, I must take the 

 responsibility, e.g. mistakes in copying, through failure of memory, or 

 false diagnosis of a species. Errors from wrong information, where it 

 has been impossible to test it, must be charged to their authors. Occa- 

 sionally doubts have been cleared up by establishing the genuineness of 

 a doubtful species or locality, or the contrary. Where it has been im- 

 possible to clear up a doubt, a ? has been added. In several cases a 

 plant has been rejected on the general improbability of its being found 

 wild in Suffolk. 



While the Flora has been in progress, a Herbarium of Suffolk has 

 also been in course of preparation. It has not been possible to make it 

 as complete as was desired. It, however, includes the larger part of 

 the Phaenogamia, Equisetaceas, Filices, Marsiliacea3, Lycopodiaceas, and 

 Characeas of the County. As it is to be placed in the Ipswich Museum, 

 Boon after the publication of this work, it will be available for future 

 students of Suffolk Botany ; and it will serve as a test of the correctness, 

 or the contrary, of the genera and species as set forth in this work. 



The Geographical and Geological Introduction to the Flora is from 

 the hand of my son, Wheelton Hind, M.D., &c. The Meteorological 

 Tables appended to it are the results of observations by Mr. P. Grieve, 

 of Bury St. Edmunds, and are taken from the West Suffolk Advertiser. 

 For the Notes on the elevation of the surface of the County, I am in- 

 debted to the kind courtesy of the Eev. Barrington Mills, Rector of 

 Lawshall. 



