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DEDICATION.
TO HIS MOST SACRED MAJESTY
KING GEORGE THE FOURTH.
SIRE,
Encouraged by Your Majesty’s Gracious condescension, in permitting me to place the following pages under Your August Protection, I beg leave, most humbly and respectfully, to lay the same at Your Majesty’s feet, in the hope that the observations therein contained may be the means of drawing attention to that useful and elegant branch of Science, Botany, which only requires to be cultivated to be admired.
That Your Majesty’s Reign, which has been marked by the most auspicious events, may be prosperous and happy,
