106 REMAEKS ON THE PEEPAEATION OF A LOCAL FLORA. 
saving time and sparing leg-weariness. Improved postal com- 
munication permits consultation with friends, and valuable 
assistance in the identification of plants to be received from the 
best authorities. These are indeed great advantages, and, if 
used as they deserve to be, with energy and perseverance, will 
help on the naturalist to attain that great proficiency, and superior 
accuracy which should ever be his aim. 
