NOTE. 



The Author must explain that, from the fact that she 

 is indebted to " Chapmaii^s Southern Flora " for a large 

 proportion of Texas plants (identified for her by her kind 

 and learned friend, Professor S. D. Buckley, formerly As- 

 sistant Geologist and Botanist of Texas), and being com- 

 pelled to use Dr. Chapman's descriptions of many that she 

 has never seen either growing or in herbarium, that she 

 has copied verbatim his arrangement of the Orders (he 

 himself following Gray), and, in the great majority of 

 cases, his description of the same. 



Her indebtedness to Professor Buckley is beyond all 

 expression of thanks; sufl&ce it to say, that without his 

 generous aid, her Flora could not have attained a fourth 

 of its present fullness. 



Also, to Dr. Watson, of the "Botanic Gardens, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass.," her thanks are gratefully made for his kind 

 assistance in her prosecution of the study of Natural 

 Classification. 



She claims no merit for original work: for the most 

 part she has been but a gleaner on others' lands, gathering 

 into one garner, as far as she could, sheaves cut by Chap- 

 man, Buckley, Gray, Drummond, Torrey, and others; but 

 left lying bound on their own individual fields. 



