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III.— ARRANGEMENT OF THE TEXT, AND ABBREVIATIONS 

 USED IN THE PRESENT WORK. 



In the following pages the name of each Family or Order (for the two words 

 may be indiscriminately used) is given in English and in Latin. The English 

 name is always in two words, exclusive of the particle. Where the first word 

 is not the name of a genus also, it may be used alone to designate the family 

 by putting it in the plural, as Crucifers for the Crucifer family ', Waterlilies 

 for the Waterlily family. Where however it is also the name of a genu3, and 

 it is wished to designate the family by a single word, in order to avoid confu- 

 sion, either the Latin name must be taken, or it must be Anglicized by some 

 of the modes which have been proposed, such as substituting the terminations 

 ids for idea, and anths or ads for acece, as : Orchids for Orchidece, Ranunculanths 

 or Ranunculads for Ranunculacece. 



After the name of the family, the first paragraph, in large type, is the cha- 

 racter of the family ; the second, in ordinary type, contains remarks on its 

 geographical distribution and affinities. 



This is followed, in small type, by the analytical key of the British genera 

 belonging to the Order, as above explained, p. 30 ; and short memoranda are 

 occasionally subjoined on commonly cultivated plants belonging to exotic 

 genera. 



Each genus commences with the name, in English on the left, in Latin on 

 the right. Where there is no English name suitable for the genus, the Latin 

 one is repeated, as it must in that case be used as English. 



Then follow the generic character, a paragraph of remarks, an analytical key 

 of species, and occasional memoranda on exotic cultivated species, all in the 

 same form as in the case of the families. 



Each species commences with the name, consisting, both in English and in 

 Latin, of two words. In English, the first word indicates the species, the 

 second the genus ; but both must be used in naming the plant, excepting in a 

 few cases where the first word is a popular name applied to no other plant : the 

 generic name may then, for ordinary purposes, be dispensed with, as : Charlock 

 Brassica may be called simply Charlock. In Latin, the first word indicates 

 the genus, the second the species ; and the name is generally followed by the 

 indication, in abbreviation, of the botanist who first fixed the name for the 

 species in question. In these abbreviations, Linn, stands for Linnceus ; Br. for 

 Robert Brown; DC. for Be Candolle ; Sm. for Sir James Smith. Other 

 names are usually abbreviated by giving the first syllable with the first letter of 

 the second syllable, as Hook, for Hooker. 



After the name is a parenthesis, in which reference is given to the plate in 

 Smith and Sowerby's ' English Botany ' where the species is figured, and to any 

 name, different from the one here adopted, under which the species may be 

 described in the English Botany, in Hooker and Arnott's c British Flora,' or in 

 Babington's ' Manual of British Botany.' Thus, under the Lesser Thalictrum, 

 " (Eng. Bot. t. 11 ; T. majus, Eng. Bot. t. 611 ; and Tflexuosum, Bab. Man.)" 

 means, that the species is figured under the name here adopted {Thalictrum 

 minus) at plate 11 ; that what is here considered as the same species includes 

 the plant figured plate 611 of that work under the name of Thalictrum majus, 

 and the plant described in Babington's Manual, under the name of Thalictrum 

 flexuosum. So under the Yellow Corydal, or Corydalis lutea, the reference 



