PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. 



After an interval of nearly twenty years, I have 

 been asked to issue a new Edition of my " Flora. " 

 Since that time I have, year by year, entered in my 

 note book many fresh localities, and added a con- 

 siderable number of species and varieties. I have also 

 been aided by several lists of plants observed both in 

 West and East Sussex, so that I am enabled to bring 

 this Edition up to date, and suited to the requirements 

 of the present day. I would here first protest against 

 the growing practice of including in our lists many 

 foreign species, and thus causing confusion. Not only 

 garden escapes are admitted, but the sweepings of corn 

 and oil mills, of stores containing hay seeds, also where 

 foreign grain is landed, and even rubbish heaps are 

 ransacked, with the view of coming upon aliens, some 

 of which are by no means desirable ones. Such 

 species are usually non-permanent, our climate being 

 uncongenial, and I exclude them altogether. 



NOTE. The Preface to this Second Edition was 

 dictated to me by my father on April 24, the morning 

 of the day on which he was seized with paralysis, and 

 he died on May 4, 1906. 



MARIAN H. ARNOLD. 



Hermitage, Westbourne, 

 March, 1907. 



