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ADVERTISEMENT.
i HIS Work is principally intended to supply a desideratum
which has long been experienced in this country,—that of a
scientific illustration of the F u n g i.
The Author is at the same time ambitious that it should
be regarded in the light of a continuation of that admirable
Work, the E n g l i s h B o t a n y of S m i t h and S o w e u b y ;
which only wants the F u n g i to constitute it a very complete
Flora of the plants of Great Britain. To render this object
more effectual, all other Cryptogamie native plants, discovered
since the termination of that work, will also be figured and described.
To Scotland, so fruitful in Cryptogamie treasures, the Author
is desirous that his undertaking should be more peculiarly
national. It is one of the first periodical works on Natural
History to which she has given birth ; and no exertions
shall be wanting to render it worthy of her encouragement.
Her Flora, to the extent of the Author’s views, will be first
completed. Those plants shall be afterwards published, which
are found to be confined to other parts of our Island ; but so
rich is the north of Great Britain in plants of the Class Cryp-
togamia, that a small number only of supplementary fasciculi
will be required for that purpose. The last Number will be
accompanied by a General Index and a Synoptical Arrangement
of all British Cryptogamie vegetables.
E dINBÜRGH,!
May 1823. /