PREFACE. 



to lay before the reader a fhort plan of the 

 work itfelf, and of the various aids I re- 

 ceived in the execution of it. 



The firft part of the book is a fketch of 

 Caledonian Zoology^ compos'd by Mr. Fen^ 

 nant, and prefix'd for the benefit of thofe 

 naturahfts who wifh to be acquainted with 

 the animals of North Britain. 



This is fucceeded by the Flora Scoti- 

 CA, or a fyflematic arrangement of the indi- 

 genous plants of Scotland and its ijlands. 



This arrangement is entirely after the 

 fexualov Linncsan method, not only as being 

 the prefent moft approved and fafhionable, 

 but the mofl ingenious and convenient, and, 

 confequently, the moil eligible fyftem hither- 

 to invented. 



It is well known to confift of twenty-four 

 claiTes or primary divifions ; at the begin- 

 ning of each of which I have enumerated the 

 feveral orders and genera contained under it, 

 together with the (hort characters which 

 diftinguifli each genus, after the manner of 

 Linnaiis, in the 1 3th edition of his Syjiema 

 Natures. This fhort fcheme enables the 

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