PREFACE. 



THE object of this work is to present to students and to prac- 

 tical botanists a systematic arrangement of the Phaenogamous and 

 higher Cryptogamous Plants of the Southern portion of the United 

 States. 



My original design did not contemplate so wide a field ; but was 

 limited to an enumeration of the plants of the Carolinas, Georgia, 

 and Florida, to which, chiefly, my attention has been directed 

 during the last thirty years. But, influenced by the solicitations 

 of friends, and by the apparent need of a more general work, I 

 have extended my plan, so as to embrace all the States south of 

 Virginia and Kentucky, and east of the Mississippi River. 



The plan of the work is nearly the same as that adopted by 

 PROFESSOR GRAY, in his excellent Manual of the Botany of the 

 Northern United States. 



For the benefit of those students who may not have a more per- 

 fect treatise at hand, I have prefixed to the Flora a very concise 

 Sketch of the Elements of Botany, and also a Glossary of Botan- 

 ical Terms. But I would earnestly recommend, to those who may 

 use this work, the admirable Botanical Series* of the author 



* I. How Plants Grow: Botany for Young People. Illustrated by 500 wood 

 engravings. 75 cents. 



II. Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology. 360 illustrations drawn from 

 nature. $ 1.00. 



IE. Structural and Systematic Botany. 1,300 cuts. 82.00. 



These works are published by Ivison, Phinney, & Co., of New York. 



