2 1 8 FLO WE R- LAND. 



individual or specific name comes second. So instead 

 of the sweet violet its Latin name is Viola odorata 

 (violet sweet). 



You should take pains to know well at least the 

 three classes (p. 212), so that you can tell to which 

 of them a plant belongs. And you should know also 

 the five natural orders, the cruciferae (p. 37), the papili' 

 onacese (leguminosse, p. 39, 108),- the labiatae (p 42), 

 the umbelliferae (p. 43, 45), the compositae (p. 48, 229). 

 You will soon know more as you practise with some 

 British Flora. 



I hope also soon to offer you a little hand- 

 book, easily carried in your pocket, and useful 

 to help you in finding quickly the names of the 

 plants you meet with in your country rambles.* You 

 could afterwards notice and compare them more fully 

 with your larger flora .at home. . 



I have so much enjoyed our talks and rambles, 

 that I feel to have grown quite at home with you, and 

 loath to say good-bye. You will, however, now be 

 able to take up a more advanced manual of Botany, 

 several very satisfactory ones are published. If you 

 would like to read another small book first, one which 

 I strongly advise you to read is Dr. Hooker's Botany, 

 published by Macmillan & Co., price, i/- : one of the 

 " Science Primers." Then for your advanced Guide 

 I should advise you to get "An Elementary Text Book 



: Who's Who in Flower-Land.' 



