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PREFACE 



Haviivo devoted much of my leisure, during 

 a long professional residence in Barbados, to 



preparing 



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great measure, answer for tlie whole Caribbean 

 Archipelago, I am induced to lay it before the 

 public, hoping that it may be found useful to 

 botanical students in general, and more especially 

 adapted to the wants of those persons wlio are 

 resident iu our valuable colonies in the West. 

 As, liowever, there are several works which uii^ht 

 seem to supersede the necessity of that I now 

 offer, it may be allowed me to remark^ that what- 

 ever may be expected from their title-pages, or 

 the abilities of their authors, there is none of them 

 which could be adopted as a Flora of Barbados 

 and the neighbouring islands. 



It would be impossible for any one, who is a 



lover of botany, to contemplate detracting from 



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