iv DEDICATION. 



life, facrificed your eafe and comfort, have 

 now to acknowledge your having been in- 

 ftrumental in affording M. La bill ar- 

 diere an opportunity of enriching natural 

 hiftory with a defcription of the fpecimens 

 which he collected during his voyage with 

 Admiral D'Entrecafleaux. 



In thefe volumes you will, no doubt, Sir, 

 find many objects which have before attracted 

 your notice in the courfe of your circumna- 

 vigation of the globe; but among the plants 

 here defenbed, you will meet with feveral of 

 new genera and fpecies, or at leafl which 

 appear not to have hitherto fallen under the 

 obfervation of any naturalifL Of thefe I 

 have endeavoured to convey, to the Englifh 

 botanical reader, an accurate idea: and it 

 will be no fmall gratification to me to learn, 

 that my humble attempts, in this refpect, 

 have not been unattended with fuccefs; and 

 that, upon the whole, my tranflation has 

 proved a faithful picture of the original, and 

 not altogether undeferving of the approba- 

 tion 



