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tions as to the improvement of the Work, and information 

 respecting the properties of indigenous plants, (whether con- 

 tained in these pages or not,) are respectfully requested, and 

 shall receive due attention. 



We have appended a Glossary of the terms occurring in the 

 botanical descriptions, with references, whenever it appeared 

 necessary, to examples in the plants here described ; and this, 

 in connection with the plates and dissections, will be of some 

 practical service. The Descriptions themselves have in seve- 

 ral instances been given in a more explicit and copious man- 

 ner than was necessary for the mere discovery of the plants to 

 which they relate, in order that the Work might in some mea- 

 sure become an Introduction to Botany, and that the reader 

 might not only be enabled to identify any particular plant, 

 but also obtain a knowledge of its structure, and thereby of 

 the structure and character of those allied to it. 



We have also included in the Appendix directions for dry- 

 ing and preserving plants, and for making the various pharma- 

 ceutical preparations ; a classified table of the characters of the 

 plants here introduced, considered as articles of the Materia 

 Medica ; a synoptical table of their properties and uses, &c. 



