PREFACE. XV 



Latin word, which the original trans- 

 lator had given up in despair. 



The sketches with a pen, that occur 

 plentifully in the manuscript, are not 

 the least curious part of the whole. 

 They are often necessary to explain de- 

 scriptive passages in the work, and 

 about sixty of them have been selected 

 to illustrate the book. These have been 

 cut in wood, with such admirable pre- 

 cision, that every stroke of the pen, even 

 the most casual, is retained, and it is but 

 justice to the artist, Mr. R. T. Austin, 

 to record his name. Several plants, 

 but rudely sketched in this manuscript, 

 being more completely represented in 

 the Flora Lapponica, it was thought un- 

 necessary to publish such figures, except 

 a few, for the sake of curiosity, or of 

 particular illustration. 



