PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 
THe present edition of the “Manual of the New Zealand Flora” has, 
unfortunately, not received the final revision of the author. Mr. 
Cheeseman died at Auckland on the 15th October, 1928. At that date 
~ he had completed the manuscript of the main portion of the work, the 
synoptical key to the families, the list of Maori names, and the glossary. 
He was working at the list of introduced plants, about half of which 
had been completed. The latter half of this list I have completed 
from the notes left by Mr. Cheeseman and from his published papers. 
I have made no attempt to revise it in accordance with all the infor- 
mation published since the appearance of the first edition of the Manual, 
as I did not wish to impose my own views on any portion of the work 
which would bear his name as author. 
For a similar reason J have not altered anythmg in the main 
portion of the flora, other than correcting obvious errors and revising 
references for the sake of consistency. The spelling of the generic and 
specific names and use of capital letters stands, therefore, as Mr. 
Cheeseman left them. The original preface and the section dealing with 
the history of botanical discovery in New Zealand had not been altered 
by Mr. Cheeseman, and are here reprinted in their original form. The 
present edition, therefore, 1s the work of Mr. Cheeseman as he left it 
at the time of his death, with the addition of the following portions, 
namely: The present preface, review of botanical work from 1905 to 
1924, and the list of the published works of Mr. Cheeseman, all of 
which I have myself prepared, while Mr. Elsdon Best has kindly 
supplied a further list of Maori names of plants, and these have been 
included in the general list and there duly acknowledged. 
A considerable portion of the Manual had been finally printed off 
before I took over the work of correcting the proofs, and a certain 
amount of inconsistency in the method of quoting authors and _ refer- 
ences to literature has resulted from the practice of printing off each 
sheet separately and immediately breaking up the type. In that 
portion of the work which I have corrected I have, when the original 
paper was accessible to me, quoted the title of the volume and the page 
number for each reference, Mr. Cheeseman followed various practices, 
in several cases quoting the number of the species and not the page, 
or the title of the paper instead of the journal in which it appears. 
Thus Cunningham’s paper appears as Precur., but this is merely an 
abbreviation of the title of the paper, and as I have not had access 
to it I have let the references as quoted by Mr. Cheeseman stand. 
