PKEFACE 



TO THE FIKST EDITION. 



THE Illustrated Edition of Mr. Bentham's " Handbook of 

 the British Flora " being exhausted, the Wood engravings 

 of that work are here reproduced as an Illustrated Com- 

 panion to the " Handbook " and other British Floras. The 

 Cuts are arranged according to the last Edition of the 

 " Handbook," and new Cuts of the species admitted in 

 recent Editions are added. To facilitate reference from 

 other Floras, where the nomenclature differs from that 

 of the (< Handbook," synonyms, in italics, are incor- 

 porated in the Index. In this volume and the " Hand- 

 book " combined, Students will have, in a mor,e convenient 

 and portable form, all that the Illustrated Edition con- 

 tained, at little more than one-third the cost. 



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