Vlll PREFACE. 



cultivation in many English counties ; the Earthnut Pea (Lathy r us 

 tuberosus), perhaps originally introduced, but now shown to have been 

 long established in Essex cornfields ; and the Bermuda Sisyrinchium 

 and two-leaved Smilacina (May-Lily), which have been proved to be 

 truly indigenous. The Allsihe Clover (Trifolium hybridum) is now be- 

 coming in several counties so common along roadsides and ditches, that 

 it will probably in future have to be included in our Floras. The cha- 

 racters and circumscription of the small Sparganium and one or two 

 other species, which were in some respects mistaken in the first edition, 

 have been corrected in the present one. 



The Outlines of Botany, serving also as a Glossary of technical terms, 

 included in the Introduction to the first edition, are here again inserted 

 in the revised form sanctioned by Sir William Hooker for the series 

 of Colonial Floras now publishing, embodying the amendments first 

 proposed by Dr. Harvey in the Introduction to his Cape Flora. 



