PREFACE. 
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fome other Lritin author; after which follow the 
Englifli names that have commonly been received. 
The fpecilic characters are extra^ed from Lin- 
nxus's Species p/iuiiarum^ with fome alterations. A 
conudcrable number omitted by Linnaeus are taken 
from Hudfon’s Flora Jnglica; but whether all the 
]^ants enumerated by that able botanift are diftinct 
fpecies, or fome of them varieties only, I fhall not 
in this place take upon me to determine. 
'Lhe places of giowth are colleded from the 
writers of our own country before-mentioned ; from 
a catalogue of plants at the end of Watfon’s Hiftory 
of Halifax ; Jenkinfon’s Defenption of Britifh plants, 
and my own obfervations. The dumtion is fliewn, 
as in the works of Linneeus, by thefe marks; 
b Trees; 7J7 Perennial, Biennial, O Annual Herbs. 
The numeral letters fhew the time of flowering, 
'afta* the manner of Hudfon, thus, I January, II Fc’- 
bruary, 111 March, and fo on. 
The fpecies here exhibited are 1602; a much lefs 
number than that in Ray’s fynopfis, the reafons for 
which are; in that work many varieties are fet 
down for dihincl fpecies, according to the common 
error of the time in which it was publifhed; the 
names of thefe are here coliecled under their proper 
fpecies, when it could be done with certainty, and 
diifinguifhed by the letters — b, — c, — ^d, &c. Such 
plants as are cultivated in the fields are by Ray ac- 
counted Britifh plants, but none are admitted here 
which are not faid to grow wild in Great- Britain, 
Ireland, or the neighbouring illands. In Hudfon’s 
Flora, fome plants fuppofed not natives of this coun- 
try, but arifing from fcatteied feeds, and continu-^ 
* ing to grow fpontaneoufly, are diftinguifhed by an 
and the fame mark is retained here. The plants of 
the ifle of Jerfey, if not found alfo in fome part of 
Great-Britain, are omitted. The lafi; reafon for the 
decreafe in the number of fpecies iS; fome marine 
bodies. 
