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My woodcut, Fig. 4, is outlined * from the beautiful 

 engraving D. 342,f there called ' fruticulosa,' from the 

 number of the young shoots 



14. Beneath the Kegina, come the twenty easily dis- 

 tinguished families, namely : 



1. Chamaedrys. ' Ground-oak.' I cannot tell why so 

 called its small and rounded leaves having nothing like 

 oak leaves about them, except the serration, which is 

 common to half, at least, of all leaves that grow. But 



* 'Abstracted' rather, I should have said, and with perfect skill, 

 by Mr. Collingwood (the joint translator of Xenophon's Economics 

 for the ' Bibliotheca Pastorum '). So also the next following cut, 

 Fig. 5. 



f Of the references, henceforward necessary to the books I have 

 used as authorities, the reader will please note the following abbrevi- 

 ations : 



C. Curtis's Magazine of Botany. 



D. Flora Danica. 



F. Figuier. 



G. Sibthorpe's Flora Graca. 



L. Linna3us. Systema Naturae. 



L. S. Linnaeus's Flora Suecica. But till we are quite used to the 



other letters, I print this reference in words. 

 L. N. William Curtis 's Flora Londinensis. Of the exquisite plates 



engraved for this book by James Sowerby, note is taken in 



the close of next chapter. 

 O. Sowerby's English Wild Flowers ; the old edition in thirty-two 



thin volumes far the best. 

 S. Sowerby's English Wild Flowers ; the modern edition in ten 



volumes. 



