SYNOPSIS 



NATURAL ORDERS OF BRITISH PLANTS. 



This Synopsis has been prepared for the purpose of facilitating 

 the discovery of the Obdbr to which an unlmown British Plant 

 belongs. It must he used with caution, as a very slight error will 

 totally mislead. The student must always commence with the 

 pair of characters numbered 1 in the left-hand margin ; and 

 having determined with which of these his plant agrees, proceed 

 similarly with the group of characters referred to by the number 

 on the right-hand side of the page, and so on. 



For instance, having gathered a Hawthorn, he finds it to agree 

 with the second character of number 1, 'the first of number 3, 

 the second of number 4, the third of number 29, and the first of 

 number 30. It therefore belongs to Obdbb, xxvi. RosACBiE and 

 Suborder Pomb^. Then turning to the body of the Manual 

 (p. 97), he will examine the specimen by the characters given 

 for that Order and its Suborder. Finding it to agree with them, 

 a perusal of the generic definitions placed under Pomeje will 

 show that it is a, Cratcegus. After a little experience in the 

 examination of plants, the eye becomes so familiar with the 

 principal Orders aa to render this process unnecessary, except 

 in doubtful cases. 



