PREFACE. 



to lay before the reader a fhort plan of the 

 work itfelf, and of the various aids I re- 

 ceived in the execution of it. 



The firft part of the book is a iketch of 

 Caledonian Zoology^ compos'd by Mr. P^«- 

 nant^ and prefix'd for the benefit of thofe 

 naturalifts who wifh to be acq^uainted with 

 the animals of North Britain. 



This is fucceeded by the Flora Scoti- 

 CA, or a fyftematic arrangement of the indi- 

 genous plants of Scotland and its tjlands. 



This arrangement is entirely after the 

 fexual or Linnaan method, not only as being 

 the prefent moft approved and fafhionable, 

 but the moft ingenious and convenient, and, 

 confequently, the moft eligible fyftem hither- 

 to invented. 



It is well known to confift of twenty-four 

 claffes or primary divifions ; at the begin- 

 ning of each of which I have enumerated the 

 feveral orders and genera contained under it, 

 together with the fhort charadters which 

 diftinguifli each genus^ after the manner of 

 Linnceusy in the 1 3th edition of his Syjiema 

 Naturce. This fhort fcheme enables the 



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