Vlii ON SEEDLINGS 



specimens. By degrees a large store of material accumulated, 

 which I made use of for several papers which the Linnean 

 Society has done me the honour of publishing in their Journal. 

 I thought, however, that it would be well to publish descriptions 

 and figures of the more interesting species, especially as many 

 of them are not often grown from seed, and are therefore not 

 easily procurable. 



The seedlings were drawn in most cases either by Mr. 

 HENRY, or by my assistant, Mr. FRASER, to whose skill and 

 ability I am greatly indebted. In the classification, etc., I 

 have followed BENTHAM and HOOKER'S great work, the ' Genera 

 Plantarum.' My time has latterly been so much occupied with 

 other matters that Mr. RENDLE has been good enough to see 

 the book through the press. Sir JOSEPH HOOKER has also most 

 kindly looked through the proofs, and made many valuable 

 suggestions, for which I beg to offer him my very warm thanks. 



HIGH ELMS, DOWN, KENT. 



