TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE. 
—_@——__. 
- 
In bringing this second volume of Professor Baillon’s Histoire 
des Plantes before the English reader, I think it well to say a word 
on what I have held to be the duty of the translator, and how 
I have attempted to fulfil it. The former may be very shortly sum- 
marized: to present the book as the Author might have done had he 
written in English. This I have tried to carry out by striving in 
all cases to master the sense accurately in the first instance; in the 
few cases where the text was ambiguous or obscure I have consulted 
other authorities. Where the sense ‘of an English writer is given I 
have given or condensed the original, following the plan of the 
French text. Many of the references have been collated and, where 
necessary, corrected; while I have added a number referring to 
Vol. II. of Professor Oliver’s Flora of Tropical Africa, and Vol. V. 
of Mr. Bentham’s Flora Australiensis, which have been published 
since the issue of the French edition. 
In this volume I have again to acknowledge the aid of my brother 
Numa. He translated the “genera” of Connaracee, Leguminose (up 
to No. 293 of Papilionacee), Hlaagnacee, Myristicaceea, and the 
first few of Proteacee and Lauracee. To free me partially for a 
heavy press of academic work, he, with rare kindness, undertook 
this task, which was stopped by his fatal illness. I cannot refrain 
