CHAPTER II. 



PLANTS AND SHRUBS. 



IN this chapter the reader will find some things which he will 

 probably think ought to have been placed in the former one, in 

 accordance with the remarks which were offered on the Mosaie 

 distribution of the vegetable kingdom. But the difficulty of adopt- 

 ing such a classification as would have included them under that 

 division, must plead our apology for departing from the order 

 which it was natural to expect would be followed in this part of the 

 work. 



