PREFACE 
This edition differs from the two former Editions by the 
omission of a few passages, which I now consider unnecessary, 
and by the omission of the appendices. I have substituted a 
short notice of the daisy in its proper place; and the appendices 
on the seasons of Shakespeare’s Plays, &c., I have omitted as not 
essential to the work though closely connected with it. 
But the chief alteration in this edition consists in the large 
number of illustrations. For these I am indebted to the skil¬ 
ful pen and liberal help of Major E. Bengough Ricketts, to 
whom I am glad in this way to offer my warmest thanks. 
Henry N. Ellacombe. 
Bit ton Vicarage , Gloucestershire , 
November , 1896. 
