PREFACE. 



IT was not on account of any deficiency of works intro- 

 ductory to the study of Botany, that the author was in- 

 duced to make public this little book, but because he 

 thought he could present to the Student of Medicine 

 a more condensed view of the first principles of the science, 

 combined with circumstances, and illustrated in a manner 

 which would more immediately interest him, than was done 

 by any mere single text book with which the author 

 was acquainted. 



The numerous and important duties devolving upon 

 the student during his sojourn at the various schools, 

 and which is comparatively of so short a duration, 

 render it expedient that the entrance to a science, 

 (especially when, as a general rule, certain sciences are 

 considered as subordinate to others, and this science, 

 unfortunately, for it is useless to deny the fact, happens 



