TO THE READER.

the authors who have treated similar materials, regarding connections and consensus: or to speak more distinctly, certain small notes by which it might be indicated which plants had already been exhibited by others and endowed with a received name, and which were appearing on the Botanical stage for the first time. I willingly undertook this work at the suggestion of friends, and at the same time I marked the previously undescribed plants with BAUHINIAN referring to the botanical classification system of Gaspard Bauhin denominations, as far as the description and icons of the authors allowed. Let fair judges of matters judge as to the outcome. Meanwhile, fare well, and enter the Garden itself.

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