TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

The text of the original work has been maintained, including all inconsistencies in spelling, lay-out, hyphenation, capitalisation etc. These have not been changed, except as indicated below. Notable inconsistencies include Hagloe/Haglo, bird's foot/ birdsfoot/birds-foot, codlin/codling, Cotteswold-hills/Cotteswold Hills, wire-worm/wireworm, sainfoin/saintfoin, per cent./percent./per-cent./pr-cent. Achillæa millefolia (yarrow) and Achillea millefolium (milfoil) are both used for the same plant.

Multi-page tables have been re-combined into single tables.

Footnotes have been moved to directly under the text to which they refer. Illustrations and tables have been moved to before or after the paragraph in which they were printed in the original work.

The differences in wording between the table of contents and the text have been left as in the original work because the meaning is clear.

Changes made to the text: Page Original Changed to vi epipitical epiphytical (page number) 218 217 vii (page number) 266 265 chesnut chestnut (page number) 320 319 9 be utterly failed he utterly failed 10 that be has tried that he has tried 24 Skirvings swede Skirving’s swede 41 (see Chap. VII.) (see Chap. VI.) 112 fænum-græcum fœnum-græcum 127 Bird’s-food Trefoil Bird’s-foot Trefoil 136 single-seeded single-seeded 146 indentical identical 151 in August 31 on August 31 276 geologial geological 318 first letter missing from “gives the former tree”, “g” inserted For improved readability, the reference letters and numbers in the drawings on pages 160, 264 and 280 have been enlarged. Some obvious punctuation errors have been corrected silently. Braces have been added to or removed from some tables for the sake of consistency. Decimal points have been standardised to mid-dots.