Vlll EDITORS PREFACE. 



field's work, and confidently anticipate the like verdict from 

 other botanists, they cannot but be most painfully aware how 

 far, in its present form, it falls short of what it would have 

 been had it come in a finished form from the hands of its 

 accomplished and lamented author ; yet, with a fond hope that 

 it will be found very useful, they close their mournful yet plea- 

 surable task, and commit to the public the long looked-for 

 Flora Vectensis. 



Kew and Kyde, 



May, 1856. 



