PREFACE, 



THE FLORIGIIAPHIA BRITANNICA was originally published 

 in monthly parts, the main object being to place in the 

 hands of the botanical student and admirers of our native 

 Flora a cheap, full, and entire work, illustrated with 

 small but accurate representations of each plant; these, 

 amounting to 1625, are arranged in the classes and orders 

 according to the Linnssan method. There is also added a 

 synopsis of the Natural System, and under the orders all 

 the genera are arranged, so that the student may con- 

 veniently study them according to both these methods. 

 In the body of the work is given the generic and specific 

 characters, and a more detailed description of each plant, 

 to which is added a short history, and the uses to which 

 they are applied in medicine, agriculture, the arts, &c. ; 

 thus rendering it not only a scientific work upon our native 

 plants, but a useful reference as to the economical applica- 

 tion of them. 



Since the work has been completed, circumstances have 

 arisen (which it is needless to mention here) by which 

 the Author is enabled to reduce it to nearly half the price 

 at which it was originally published; and in order to render 

 it as complete as possible to the present time, a short 

 specific description has been added of those plants which 

 have been discovered or become naturalized since the 

 Parts were published, so that this may be considered 

 almost equal to a new edition of the work. 



11. D. 



March 20, 1857. 



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