Dedication to the First Edition. 



TO THE 

 RIGHT HONOURABLE 



DOWAGER LADY DE CLIFFORD. 



MAY IT PLEASE YOUR LADYSHIP, 



It is with no small degree of satisfaction that I 

 here record your Ladyship's permission to introduce this 

 small and humble work to public notice, under the sanc- 

 tion of your Ladyship's distinguished name ; believe 

 me, I am duly sensible of the honour conferred, as well 

 as of the powerful recommendation which it thereby 

 receives. 



Your Ladyship's name, I may fairly say, is in a man- 

 ner identified with the science of botany itself; for you 

 have been its liberal and munificent patroness for years, 

 and have long pursued it, as a study at once innocent, 



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