My DeAR Si STE R, 
In complying with your request “ that I 
would furnish you with a popular description of the 
several plants figured in c A Wreath of Friendship, 5 ” 
I must risk my réputation as a Botanist with scientific 
readers, and hazard my character, by heing thought 
pedantic, with those who are unaccustomed to ther 
use of technical terms. As I am now writing solely 
for the latter description of readers, I shall venture to 
recommend them to apply for information to a little 
glossary of such as I may think it advisable to use, 
and with which I shall here furnish you; and they will 
then, I trust, hâve no difficulty in following me in the 
half technical, half explanatory form, in which I shall 
