Pboposep to be published early in 1861. 

 Price Is. monthly. 



THE BRITISH BOTANIST, 



A NEW MONTHLY JOUENAL, 



INTENDED CHIEFLY FOE 



EECORDS IN BRITISH BOTANY, 



DESCRIPTIVE, CRITICAL, AND TOPOGRAPHICAL. 



The want of a good botanical periodical, as an organ of 

 intercommunication with and between all true Botanists, who 

 devote their attention chiefly to the plants of their own island, 

 has been much felt for some time past. This want has been 

 felt more and more each succeeding year since 1854, the date 

 to which the original Phytologist was continued. 



It is believed that the time has now anived, when an effort 

 ought to be made to supply this want, by the establishment 

 of an improved monthly journal, at the same price of one shilling ; 

 taking rather higher scientific ground than the original Phytologist, 

 but without sacrificing what was really good in the plan of that 

 once popular periodical, formerly found so serviceable to the 

 progress of Botany in this country, and so useful in cherishing 

 a taste for correct botanical knowledge. 



While it is clearly seen that a journal of British Botany should 

 be open to the contributions of all observers of nature, — the lady 

 or gentleman amateur equally as the more technical man of science, 

 — it is thought that such a journal may, at the same time, be so 



