PREFACE 



TO THE SECOND EDITION. 



THE exhaustion of a large Edition of this work in the 

 course of a few years is a gratifying proof of its utility to, 

 and appreciation by, Students of Botany, and has encouraged 

 the Publishers, in preparing a new Edition for the press, 

 to endeavour to render it still more useful and worthy of 

 the patronage it has already received. In the present 

 Edition, five new cuts have been added, and the whole have 

 been rearranged according to the New Edition (the Fifth, 

 just published) of Bentham's " Handbook " as revised by 

 Sir J. D. Hooker. The Index has been greatly enlarged 

 to facilitate reference from other Floras, and a new Index 

 of English and popular names has been added. Lastly, to 

 meet the convenience of Students of limited means, the 

 price of this volume, and also of the Handbook, has been 

 reduced from 12s. to 10s. 6d. } the Publishers relying upon 

 an increased sale to compensate them for the surrender thus 

 made. In this volume and the " Handbook " combined, 

 therefore, Students will now have a complete Illustrated 

 British Flora, the best, especially for beginners, for one 



LONDON, March 22nd, 1887. 



