INTRODUCTION. 
To those who are led to regard the subject as one of 
mere hard names, and are thereby deterred from its 
Study, it is needful to state, that as few as possible of 
such terms have been employed, and when so employed, 
will generally be found accompanied with some familiar 
expression which can be adopted as a substitute, or 
equivalent. About eighty or a hundred words of 
Latin derivation suffice, if properly selected, as an 
ample store of terms to a young Botanist, or to any 
one who wishes to be acquainted with the amount of 
information which has been aimed at in the following 
pages, and which, (if taken as a whole) will be found 
sufficient for the generality of those who make this 
subject their ordinary Study. 
Ample reference to figures has been employed and 
occasionally repeated, in order to bring into one plate, 
subjects which need comparison in various ways. 
The objects which have been selected as illus- 
trations, are either easy of access as specimens of wild 
plants, or are common in gardens. The Author would 
impress upon those who may employ this work in 
teaching, the necessity of making the student follow 
out the illustrations given, by examining specimens 
collected for the occasion, and of detaching the parts 
examined from all adjoining organs, that a definite 
idea of the object studied may be obtained. 
The present work is intended to be followed by one on 
the same plan, which will treat of Descriptive Botany. 
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Lonpon, July, 1849. 
