PREFACE. vil 
various local floras would have occupied too much space, 
besides which many of them are too unreliable. 
My thanks are due to the following gentlemen for 
much valuable help :—the Rev. W. A.-Leighton, Mr. C. 
B. Plowright, the Rev. J. Stevenson, the Rev. Dr. Keith, 
Professor James, W. H. Trail, and many others, besides 
those already mentioned. 
As errors, in spite of all one’s care, will creep into a 
work of this kind, I shall take it as an act of kindness 
on the part of those who will point them out, with the 
view of correcting a second edition should it ever be 
called for. 
WILLIAM PHILLIPS. 
CANoNBURY, SHREWSBURY, 
August, 1887. 
