EXPLANATIONS 



INTRODUCTORY TO THE SECOND VOLUME OF 



CYBELE BRITANNICA. 



The Second volume of the Cybele Britannica seems to 

 require no particular explanation, since it is simply a con- 

 tinuation of the former volume, carrying forward the distri- 

 bution of individual species through the remaining orders 

 of Dicotyledonous plants, with a portion of the Monocoty- 

 ledones. Those of the latter which may still remain 

 untreated of, after completion of this second volume of the 

 work, together with the Filices and allied orders, will form 

 the earlier portion of the third volume. It is anticipated 

 that the remainder of volume third will be required for 

 supplementaiy and corrective additions to the two earlier 

 volumes, likely to be supplied from the present rapidly 

 accumulating stores of infonnation on the subject of local 

 botany in England. 



The Author feels anxious to complete these three vo- 

 lumes, including all the phsenogamous plants and ferns ; 

 because they will thus comprise a full collection of airanged 

 data, ready for the use of any other botanical geographer, 

 either in prosecuting similar researches, or in canying 

 them onward to more general views. And in order to ren- 

 der the three volumes as complete and useful as the plan 

 of them may admit, in the light of a condensed ariangement 



VOL. II. B 



