PREFACE. 



The volume of my Scientific Lectures which contains a 

 chapter on Flowers being now almost out of print, Messrs. 

 Macmillan have proposed to me that I should reprint 

 that chapter, together with two subsequent Lectures, one 

 on Fruits and Seeds, the other on Leaves, as an additional 

 volume in their Nature Series, under the title of " Flowers, 

 Fruits, and Leaves." To this I have gladly assented, and 

 have taken the opportunity to make several corrections 

 and additions, as well as to insert several new illustrations. 

 For permission to use Figs. 80, 82-87, 88-90, and 95, 

 I am indebted to the courtesy of Messrs. Lovell Reeve 

 and Co. Some of the other illustrations are from drawings 

 by Lady Lubbock and my daughter, Mrs. S. C. Buxton. 



High Elms, Down, Kent. 

 1886. 



