PEEFACE 



The Illustrated Edition of Mr. Bentham's " Handbook of 

 the British Flora " being exhausted, the Wood engravings 

 of that work are here reproduced as an Illustrated Com- 

 panion to the "Handbook" and other British Floras. The 

 Cuts are arranged according to the last Edition of the 

 " Handbook," and new Cuts of the species admitted in 



recent Editions are added. To facilitate reference from 

 other Floras, where the nomenclature differs from that 



of the "Handbook," synonyms, in italics, are incor- 

 porated in the Index. In this volume and the " Hand- 

 book" combined. Students will have, in a more convenient 

 and portable form, all that the Illustrated Edition con- 

 tained, at little more than one-third the cost. 



