PREFACE. v 



"barice ; the Flo're de Theocrite and Flore de Virgile of 

 the same Mons. Fee ; the Flore Poetique Ancienne, 

 by J. B. Du Molin, Paris, 1856 ; Billerbeck's Flora 

 Classica, Leipsic, 1824; Dierbach's Flora Apiciana, 

 Heidelberg, 1830 ; Fraas, Synopsis Plantarum Florae 

 Classicce, Miinchen, 1845; and Lenz, BotaniJc der 

 alien Griechen und Homer, Grotha, 1859. 



With the assistance of these and other appliances, 

 it has been my endeavour to affix modern synonymes 

 to as many as possible of the Trees and Shrubs 

 alluded to by Classical writers, although in conse- 

 quence of the vagueness of their descriptions, and 

 the loose manner in which they noted the cha- 

 racters of the plants that came under their obser- 

 vation, I have found it scarcely within my power, 

 except in the case of a few conspicuous and im- 

 portant species, to do more, than point out with 

 some degree of probability the Natural Family, or 

 at most the Genus, to which the classical desig- 

 nation appeared intended to apply. 



Upon the whole, I venture to hope, that this little 

 Work, in conjunction with the " Lectures on Roman 

 Husbandry" which preceded it, will be found to 

 embrace an identification of a greater number of 

 Greek and Roman plants than is contained in any 

 former English Publication ; although I must in 

 fairness inform my readers, that a still larger list 

 is included in more than one of those German 

 writings which have been already referred to in 



