PREFACE. 
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AFTER many interruptions this Sketch of 
the phaenogamous plants of South-Carolina and 
Georgia has at length been terminated. It was 
commenced when a work of this description was 
much wanted; it has been continued after that 
want has been in a great measure supplied, from 
a sense of obligation to those who had encour- 
aged its publication. 
That this work should be imperfect was una- 
voidable. The author has never had leisure or 
opportunity to visit every portion of the district 
whose plants it includes; he has had no access to 
Botanic Gardens where he might observe and 
examine those plants which had escaped his 
own researches; he has been able to consult but 
a very small number of the costly works, or 
even of the journals in which in Europe descrip- 
tions of the plants of North America are occa- 
sionally published, and he has had no opportunity 
of inspecting any herbarium but the one which 
through the kindness of his friends and his own 
exertions he has himself formed. Under such 
circumstances it will not be surprising if he shall 
