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Excerpt from Flowers and Their Pedigrees These little essays originally appeared as articles in Longman's Magazine, ' the Cornhill Magazine, ' Macmillan's Magazine, ' the 'gentleman's Magazine, ' and Belgravia, ' and I have to thank the editors and proprietors of those periodicals for kind permission to reprint them here. They are now offered to the public as a first instalment of a work which I hope some day more fully to carry out - a Functional Companion to the British Flora. We know by this time pretty well what our English wild flowers are like we want to know next why they are just what. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.