PREFACE. 



THE volume of my Scientific Lectures which contains a 

 chapter on Flowers being now almost out of print, Messrs. 

 Macmillan have proposed to me that I should reprint 

 that chapter, together with two subsequent Lectures, one 

 on Fruits and Seeds, the other on Leaves, as an additional 

 volume in their Nature Series, under the title of " Flowers, 

 Fruits, and Leaves." To this I have gladly assented, and 

 have taken the opportunity to make several corrections 

 and additions, as well as to insert several new illustrations. 



For permission to use Figs. 80, 82-87, 88-90, and 95, 

 I am indebted to the courtesy of Messrs. Lovell Reeve 

 and Co. 



HIGH ELMS, DOWN, KENT. 



