PREFACE.
It has been thought proper, in order that this work may not be swelled with unnecessary synonyms, that the plants described in the Species Plantarum and the two Mantissa's of the elder Linnæus, should simply be referred to those books, with the addition only of references to the works of Jacquin, Curtis, L'Heritier, and the Flora Rossica.
The Supplementum Plantarum of the younger Linnæus was not published till great progress had been made in compiling this Catalogue; plants that were inserted in it before the time of that publication, will therefore frequently be found to have the same synonyms as are given in it; all that have been added since are referred to it in the same manner as others are to the works of the Father; but errors which too frequently occur in the Son's publication, are, wherever they have been discovered, corrected.
