DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER.
The title page given to the first number to be cancelled, and the
one now given to be substituted for it.
The advertisement accompanying No. 1. to be cancelled.
The advertisement to No. 7, (the one dated Feb. 8, 1831,) to follow
immediately after the “ Errata” on this page.
The plates to face the heads of the Chapters.
ERRATA.
Page 112, line 6 from the bottom, for “ attenuata” read dilatata.
Page 115, in the explanation of the plate of UVularia perfoliata, after (t fig. 5” insert,
jig . 6, an outline o f a leaffrom a plant in fruit.
ADVERTISEMENT.
THE author begs leave to call the attention of the subscribers of
the Flora, to the new style of engraving adopted in the work, with a
view to enhance its value. It consists of that kind of graphic execution
in which so high a degree of perfection has been attained in
France, and which has been so justly admired in the plates of Mi-
chaux’s splendid work on the Forest Trees of North America.
In the present work, the Table representing the Cranberry, Table
XX., and the Table exhibiting a picture of the famous Scull-Cap, all
in Nos. VI. and VII., afford specimens of this kind of engraving,
executed by the masterly graver'of Mr. Cornelius Tiebout, of this city,
an artist .who has long been eminent for his line and dotted engraving.
These plates are printed in colour, and are afterwards coloured by
hand. It is confidently believed by the author, that they will be found
the most successful attempts at imitation by sound engraving, of the
French style, yet made in this country. It may not be here improper
to state, and the author does it without any fear of contradiction from
those acquainted with the subject, that it is the next thing to impossi