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THE object of the following pages is to 

 enable children and young persons to 

 acquire a knowledge of the vegetable 

 productions of their native country, by 

 introducing to them, in a familiar manner, 

 the principles of the Linnaean system of 

 Botany. 



For this purpose, the arrangement of 

 Linnaeus is briefly explained ; a native 

 plant of each class, with a few exceptions, 

 is examined, and illustrated by an Engrav- 

 ing ; arid a short account is added of some 

 of the principal foreign species. 



The classification of Linnaeus has been 

 in part relinquished, in order to conform 

 to that adopted by Dr. Withering, whose 

 valuable " Arrangement of British Plants " 

 is one of the best works of reference upon 

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