IV 



PREFACE. 



regarded as supplementary, containing, as they do, 

 a summary of the best information I have been able 

 to collect as to the Trees and Shrubs really intended 

 by those described or noticed in the principal Greek 

 and Roman writers. 



For this purpose I have availed myself, not only 

 of the researches of Dr. Sibthorp himself, and of the 

 old commentaries on Theophrastus and Dioscorides, 

 which were accessible at the time he left the mate- 

 rials for his Prodromus Florae Grcecce, but also of 

 various works on the Flora of the Ancients, which 

 had appeared in % Great Britain, France, and Ger- 

 many at a period more recent. 



Amongst the latter may be particularised the two 

 Paris editions of Pliny, the one in 10 vols., pub- 

 lished in 1827, under the auspices of Cuvier, Des- 

 fontaines, and other eminent French naturalists, 

 the other, with a French translation, in 20 vols., 

 undertaken by Pancoucke in 1829 37, and edited 

 by Grandsagne, with the assistance of several well- 

 known naturalists, but of which the botanical part 

 was chiefly contributed by M. A. L. a Fee ; and 

 also the English translation of the same Author by 

 Dr. Bostock and H. T. Riley, Esq., brought out by 

 Mr. Henry Bohn in 1855, which is enriched with 

 a number of useful explanatory notes, for which 

 the Editor has been greatly indebted to the French 

 author last mentioned. 



I may also mention Sprengel's Historia Rei Her- 



