ADVERTISEMENT. 



THE object of the following Treatise is to communicate a 

 popular, but at the same time a scientific, view of the chief 

 tribes of Flowering Plants, arranged according to the Natural 

 System. The Author is not aware that any similar attempt 

 has been heretofore made, to embody this arrangement in a 

 work of a strictly elementary character, excepting in the useful 

 but expensive "Ladies' Botany" of Dr. Lindley, which he 

 would strongly recommend to such of his readers as can gain 

 access to it. Being persuaded, however, that through the aid 

 of this System alone can any definite idea be gained, of the vast 

 extent and varied aspect of the Vegetable Kingdom, he has not 

 hesitated to employ it here. In his selection of Orders, he has 

 regarded those as having the best claim to notice, which contain 

 plants of greatest importance to Man, or which present some 

 remarkable peculiarities of structure or habit; a few, however, 

 which possess neither of these distinctions, have been intro- 

 duced, as containing well-known British plants, or on account of 

 their great abundance in particular spots of the globe. The 

 Cryptogamia have not been treated of in this Part, since a 

 popular view of their character was included in the former one ; 

 and further details would not have possessed sufficient genera 1 

 interest. 



W. B. C. 



