PEE FACE. 



THE following work merely professes to be a List of the 

 various habitats of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of Tor- 

 quay and its neighbourhood, and lays no claim whatever 

 to be considered in a scientific point of view ; it is only 

 designed to facilitate the researches of those who are de- 

 sirous of botanizing in our beautiful vicinity, by pointing 

 out, as clearly as possible, the particular localities in which 

 the majority of our wild plants are to be found. 



I have followed the classification and arrangement of 

 Hooker and Arnott's ' British Flora' (seventh edition), 

 and have relied, for the habitats of the plants enumerated, 

 chiefly on my own knowledge of localities after nearly 

 twenty years' botanizing in the neighbourhood ; but I have 

 availed myself also of a large collection of Devonian plants 

 presented to the Torquay Natural History Society by 

 C. E. Parker, Esq., and of a small but valuable collection 

 of the rarer Flowering Plants, and a beautiful collection 

 of Ferns, presented to the same Institution by Miss A. 

 Griffiths. 



Although my more immediate object has been to give 

 the several habitats in and near Torquay, still I have 

 deemed it advisable to take a rather wider range, and to 

 specify some more distant stations of plants, but in those 



