PREFACE. 



THIS little work is offered to the public, with a 

 sincere wish that it may be found to facilitate the 

 study of Botany in this city. During the Author's 

 frequent excursions with his Botanical Class, into 

 the neighbouring country, he has been very sen- 

 sible of the want of a local Flora of this nature. 

 His Prodromus, which contained all the plants he 

 had met with, at the period of its publication, was 

 not only inconvenient from its size, but, a want of 

 the localities of the plants enumerated, lessened its 

 usefulness for the student. Besides, of that work, 

 there remain but a few copies, the edition hav- 

 ing been very small. The present work has 

 been written entirely in English, the more easily to 

 •assist the tyro, and with a hope too, that it would 

 be more likely to invite the attention of those to 

 the study of botany, who might not be willing to 

 encounter the laborious task of reading descrip- 

 tions of plants in the Latin technical phraseology, 

 always constrained, and never alluring, either 

 from its elegance or purity. All the plants (fo- 

 il 1 ihed in this Flora, with the exception of about 

 twenty have been personally collected by the 

 Vuthor — and in all cases of doubt or difficulty, n - 



