POPULAR 

 GEOGRAPHY OF PLANTS. 



INTRODUCTION. 



BOTANY and Geography are mutual gainers by being studied 

 in connection with each other. A new and living interest is 

 given to a map of the world, when we glance over it with 

 botanical eyes, and in fancy see each country clothed in its 

 appropriate dress ; and, on the other hand, wonderful life is 

 infused into botanical studies when we look beyond the nar- 

 row limits of our own island, and make acquaintance with the 

 native homes of rare exotics, and with the foreign relations 

 of our British flowers. Our native Flora itself thus appears 

 to us in a new light, and we pursue our study of it with far 

 greater satisfaction when we look at it as forming a part of 

 a great whole, and understand something of its relative po- 

 sition to the rest of the great vegetable kingdom. 



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