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

PREFACE,
to afcertain almofl any vegetable of Cciledo^
man birth.
It may be thought perhaps a little arroi
gant, that I fhould attempt a fyftematlc
arrangement of the plants of a large country,
without having fpent more than one fummcr
in it ; an4 indeed the Imputatlor^ would be
juft, if I had not received the greatefl af-r
iiflance therein from able and ingenious bo-
tanifls, who have reiided in that country
their whole lives : gentlemen, who have
not only permitted me to examine their va^
luable colledllons, but have freely commu-^
nicated to me the obfervations of many
years.
Among thefe I have the pleafure firft to
mention with gratitude the name of Dr.
HopCy the pre fen t celebrated profeiTor of
botany at Edinburgh, who not only favoured
me with the fight of his copious Herbarium,
but permitted me the ufe of his notes and
obfervations, the refult of a long enquiry.
To the Rev. Mr. Stuart jun. late of
Killin in Breadalbane, now of Lufs, in th?
county of Dumbarton, 1 am indebted for
every