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the Linncean system, and conforming to the most 

 i:ecent and improved ahcrations and amendments. 

 I have added the vernacnlar name assigned to 

 each of these plants in the Gardener'sDictionary, 

 the IJortus Kewensis, the ilortus Britannicns^ the 

 English Flora, and in some other popular works^ 

 as marking the appelkition by which they are 

 more femiliarly known in Britain j also those in 

 use in Jamaica, as far as I have been able to 

 ascertain them from Browne and Long, I have 

 carefully endeavomed to identify the plants men- 

 tioned in the Natural History of Barbados with 

 their proper originals ; ahhough, from the loose- 

 ness and inaccuracy of description already alluded 

 to, it has generally been difficult, and frequently 

 impossible to effect this with any thing like cer- 



tainty. 



I have also added 



names now 



English name, being simply 



currently prevalent in Barbados, when different 

 from those adopted by Mr, Hughes; but many 

 plants are not distinguished by any particular 



included by the 



vulgar under the general denomination of wild 



plants. 



Although the Linneean artificial method has 



been adopted, I have thought it^expedient to mark 

 the order to which each genus belongs in the 



natural arrangement proposed by Liimseus^ and 



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