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Victoria, the present one has been made, as will be 

 found, to comprehend the requirements of students 

 with regard to Australian botany generally. 



The first edition, as will be seen by the notices 

 appended at the end of this work, has not only 

 been favourably and generally commented on by 

 the press, but has received the still higher compli- 

 ment of having been reprinted by at least two influ- 

 ential newspapers especially interested in botanical, 

 horticultural, and agricultural matters. For some of 

 the blocks used in illustrating Lesson II., I am 

 indebted to Albert Molineaux, Esq., proprietor of 

 The Garden and Field, Adelaide. I am also 

 indebted to G. P. O. Tepper, Esq., F.L.S., of 

 Ardrossan, S.A., who in the same magazine (1881) 

 edited the first edition of this work to suit the require- 

 ments of South Australian botanical students. I 

 am also indebted to Mr. Tepper for many valuable 

 suggestions of which I have availed myself, and 

 desire to express my obligations. To the editor 

 of The Town and Country Journal, Sydney, who 

 published the first edition in 1880, I owe my 

 acknowledgments for allusions to certain New 

 South Wales plants. 



WILLIAM R. GUILFOYLE. 

 Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, 1884. 



