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NOTICE. 
Mr. Robert Brown, and Mr. J. J. Bennett, are indeed owing 
my most cordial thanks. 
On my return to England it is my purpose, if life be spared, 
not only to complete the present little publication, but to 
follow it up, as health and leisure may permit, with a series 
of similar Manuals on the Ferns and other Cryptogamic plants, 
the Birds and Fishes, Shells or Mollusks, marine and ter- 
restrial, of the island : such as, in conjunction with the ela- 
borate and admirable works of Mr. Wollaston on the Insects, 
may furnish together a tolerably complete Natural History of 
the Madeiran group. 
In the mean time, no further inconvenience than delay will 
accrue to the purchasers of the present instalment, in itself 
complete, of the Phaenogamic Flora, by its separate publication. 
When its sequel is carried through the press, care will be taken 
to make the paging continuous with that of the part now 
published, so that the whole may be ultimately bound up in 
one volume, for which a fresh title-page, with other intro- 
ductory or prefatory matter, tables, indices, &c., will be 
supplied. 
One word then only for the present to collectors in Madeira. 
It is a much better plan to take out a sufficient stock of drying- 
paper for the day’s walk or excursion, strapped or tied up be- 
tween two common boards of suitable size, placing the plants 
at once when gathered between the sheets, than to collect them 
in a herborizing-box, not laying them out till the conclusion 
of the expedition in the evening. A great amount of trouble 
is thus saved : and, indeed, the heat of the sun in Madeira 
renders the herborizing-box almost useless, its contents gene- 
rally withering long before they can be earned home. The 
roughest wooden boards are better than the best paste-boards, 
pressing more equably, and affording more protection from a 
casual shower. At night, a stone of suitable weight placed on 
the bundle, forms the best possible plant-press. 
Lea Rectory, July 27th, 1857. 
