PREFACE. 



I HAVE tried to make this little volume worthy of 

 being thought the indispensable companion of 

 those who care to make the acquaintance of the 

 flowers which blossom by the wayside, make gay 

 our fields, haunt the brooks and streams, and stud 

 alike with beauty the moorland and the mountain. 

 Included are a few pages descriptive of the dif- 

 ferent forms of roots, leaves, flowers, and flower- 

 stems, together with a brief summary of the 

 principles of classification adopted by botanists, 

 in order that those who wish to collect specimens 

 of the wild flowers for a herbarium may have 

 some guide for their classification and arrangement. 

 They will be assisted in this by the Index, where, 



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