GLOSSARY ofr TERMS. 



III. ARRANGEMENT OF THE TEXT, AND ABBREVIATIONS 

 USED IN THE PxtESENT WORK. 



In the following pages the name of each Family or Order (for the two 

 words may be indiscriminately used) is given in Latin and in English. 

 The English name is always in two words, exclusive of the particle. 

 Where the first word is not the name of a genus also, it may be used 

 alone to designate the family by putting it in the plural, as Crucifers 

 for the Crucifer family, Waterlilies for the Waterlily family. Where, how- 

 ever, it is also the name of a genus, and it is wished to designate the 

 family by a single word, in order to avoid confusion, either the Latin 

 name must be taken, or it must be Anglicised by some of the modes 

 which have been proposed, such as substituting the terminations ids 

 for idecB, and ant hi or ads for acece, as : Orchids for Orchidacece, Ranun- 

 cvlanths or RanwncuLads for Ranwnculacccs. 



After the name of the family, the first paragraph, in large type, is the 

 character of the family ; the second, in ordinary type, contains remarks 

 on its geographical distribution and affinities. 



This is followed, in small type, by the analytical key of the British 

 genera belonging to the Order, as above explained, (p. lii., par. 245) ; 

 and short memoranda are occasionally subjoined on commonly culti- 

 vated plants belonging to exotic genera. 



Each genus commences with the name, in Latin on the left, in English 

 on the right. Where there is no English name suitable for the genus, 

 the Latin one is repeated, as it must in that case be used as English. 



