Preface 



list I am acquainted only through descriptions and 

 figures. On the other hand, I have nearly half of 

 them growing in my garden, and others are to be 

 found near at hand. 



The addition of plants from Moretum and Copa 

 will, I hop^e, be welcome, and not be taken as 

 necessarily involving any view on the authenticity of 

 those poems. 



Fairwarp, 

 Sussex, 

 1919. 



