Blair Collection > Flora Scotica: or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides > Volume 1

PREFACE.
learner not only to behold at one view the
various genera comprehended under each
clafs, but alfo to diftinguilh readily their
differences, and to difcover fome few fpe-
cies of plants, which would feem to the
'Tyro improperly clafs'd, and might other-
wife baffle his refearches in inveftigating
their names. Thefe irregular fpecies are
therefore, to facilitate his enquiries, printed
in italics, and placed at the foot of the or^
der to which they might feem to belong.
Again, at the head of every genus its ge-
neric characters are exprefs'd more fully, in
conformity to the method of the foremen-
tioned Siijedifi naturalift, with references to
Iiis Genera Vlantariiniy where thofe charadlers
are defcribed at large.
Under each genus are arranged the feveral
fpecies, with their trivial names and fpecific
differences, all taken from the fame author,
unlefs where new fpecies required new
names to be given them.
Then follow references to thofe authors
who have exhibited the heft figures of the
Several fpecies. The books referred to are
ofter^