TO THE MOST NOBLE 

 JAMES DUKE OF MONTROSE, 



CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW, 



work, which I take the liberty of inscribing 

 to Your Grace, contains a description of the plants of 

 Scotland, a very large proportion of which are indige- 

 nous to the domains belonging to the Chief of the family 

 of GRAHAM. The materials methodized by me in this 

 volume were, many of them, collected at a period when 

 I could not anticipate that I should ever be called to 

 discharge those duties of public instruction which have 





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