PREFACE. 
THIS little work is offered to the public, with a 
sincere wish that it may be found to facilitate the 
study of Botany in this city. During the Author’s 
frequent excursions with his Botanical Class, into 
the neighbouring country, he has been very sen- 
sible of the want of a local Flora of this nature. 
His Prodromus, which contained all the plants he 
had met with, at the period of its publication, was 
not only inconvenient from its size, but, a w^ant of 
the localities of the plants enumerated, lessened its 
usefulness for the student. Besides, of that work, 
there remain but a few copies, the edition hav- 
ing been very small. The present work has 
been written entirely in English, the more easily to 
assist the tyro, and with a hope too, that it would 
be more likely to invite the attention of those to 
the study of botany, who might not be willing to 
encounter the laborious task of reading descrip- 
tions of plants in the Latin technical phraseology, 
always constrained, and never alluring, either 
from its elegance or purity. All the plants de- 
scribed in this Flora, with the exception of about 
twenty have been personally collected by the 
Author — and in all cases of doubt or difliculty, re- 
