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procate, it must be out of bad and improper 
feelings. 
I have had warm friends and patrons for 
awhile ; but I have been deprived of them all 
by death already, J. D. Clifford, Z. Collins, D. 
Clinton, Dr. Mitchill, Dr. Jackson, were such. 
May I meet similar new patrons in my old 
age ! 
Although this Flora will exhibit me as a 
learned Botanist, accurate observer, and zeal- 
ous discoverer, it does not afford me the means 
of appearing as a Draftsman, Collector of spe- 
cimens, Medical Botanist, &,c. for which I 
must refer to my other works, Medical Bota- 
ny with 100 figures, my Autikon Botanikon, 
& c. 
I have written my Botanical Works in 4 
languages, Latin, French, Italian and English ! 
I now write this entirely in English in order to 
make it available to all our Botanists ; but my 
Flora Telluriana will be partly in Latin, at 
least for generic and specific characters. 
It is usual for accurate Botanists to state the 
kind of botanical evidence that they can give, 
which is usually expressed by v. v. meaning 
seen alive— v. s. seen dry, &c. but this may be 
very delusive since many plants seen alive are 
only seen in gardens and not in their natural 
state, or the floral characters have not been ex- 
amined. Greater accuracy should be required 
and 1 state at once that all the plants I describe 
have been met alive, and collected by me in 
their native soils, in bloom and seeds unless I 
otherwise state the facts; whether seen with- 
out seeds, or only in gardens. 
As to dried or preserved plants, they may 
also have been with or without seeds ; always 
