Ylll 
PREFACE. 
The effential charadlers alone are given in Latin, as 
well as in Englifli. The figures are taken from coloured 
drawings, made on the fpot, and communicated to Mr. 
Wilfon by John White Efq. Surgeon General to the 
Colony, along with a moft copious and finely-preferved 
colledtion of dried fpecimens, with which the drawings 
have m every cafe been carefully compared. 
December 1793. 
