from his simere froix, The Authion.

THE

BRITISH FLORA.

THE

BRITISH FLORA;

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.;

COMPRISING THE

PHÆNOGAMOUS, OR FLOWERING PLANTS,

AND

THE FERNS;

BY SIR WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER,

K.H. LL.D. F.R., A. & L.S.

HONORARY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY; MEMBER OF THE
IMPERIAL ACADEMY CÆSAR. LEOPOLD. NATURE CURIOSORUM, of the
IMPERIAL SOCIETY CÆSAR. NATURÆ CURIOSORUM OF MOSCOW; of the
ROYAL ACADEMIES OF SWEDEN, PRUSSIA, LUND; OF THE ACACEMIES OF
PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK, BOSTON; OF THE NAT. HIST. SOCIETY OF
MONTREAL, ETC. ETC. ETC.,

AND

REGIUS PROFESSOR OF BOTANY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW.

THE FOURTH EDITION,

WITH ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS, AND NUMEROUS FIGURES ILLUSTRATIVE OF
THE GRASSES AND UMBELLIFEROUS PLANTS.

"Call the vales, and bid them hither cast
Their bells and flow'rets of a thousand hues."

LONDON:

LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS.

MDCCCXXXVIII.