TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE. 
It is hoped that the following translation of the “Ex- 
cursionsflora” will supply a need, which has long been 
felt hy English visitors to Switzerland, for a complete and 
portable handbook of the Swiss flora. 
No German work so well deserves to be called com¬ 
plete and portable as this excellent little book of Herr 
Gremli’s, the usefulness of which has been well proved by 
the large number of copies sold. 
Through the kindness of the Author the present trans¬ 
lation contains not only the new matter included in the 
French translation by M. J. J. Vetter (1885), but also 
still later corrections and additions published in the fourth 
supplement (Neue Beitrage, Heft IV. 1887). 
Those only, who have tried it, can understand the 
difficulty of translating a technical German work into 
English, and the present translator asks the indulgence of 
his readers for any imperfections which may be found in 
his work, which he hopes to remove entirely should a 
further issue be called for. 
Davos, July 1888. 
LEONARD W. PAITSON. 
