Index to Volume I
Errata Volume I.
Index to Volume II
Errata Volume II.
Vol. 1.
of the
Botanist’s Repository
Comprising
Colour’d Engravings
of
New and Rare Plants
ONLY
With Botanical Descriptions &c.
——in——
Latin and English,
after the
Linnæan System.
by
H. Andrews
Botanical Painter Engraver, &c.
PREFACE.
The utility of this undertaking at a crisis, when the taste forBotanical pursuits so universally prevails, will, it is presumed, bereadily admitted by all those engaged in them, whether as theorists,collectors, or cultivators. Such a work, under the immediate directionof some principal leader in the science, of this country, has been adesideratum of long expectance; but either from the great expencenecessarily incurred, before any adequate return could be made, or fromthe trouble attendant on publications, where colouring forms soconsiderable a part, as yet, every similar attempt has proved abortive.The Bot. Mag. of Mr. Curtis, a work of singular merit in its way, hasoccasionally furnished, it is true, a few specimens of new plants; butthe greatest part, as its title-page indicates, consists of those wellknown, common plants, long cultivated in our gardens; the direct reverseof the proposals and intentions of the author, in the prosecution ofthis. From a wish to prevent confusion, it was a determined principle atthe outset of the work, not to give any generic or specific synonims;but to follow the most generally accepted names, of known and namedplants, without a cavil, of our best English botanists, or cultivators,if no flagrant error was perceptible, according to the Linnæan system:being satisfied, nothing contributed so much to repress the ardour ofyoung botanists as the difficulty of affixing the right name to thoseplants, which, (from a captious desire in every publisher, to foist insomething of his own coinage, upon the most trifling supposeddifference,) have undergone several changes of title. If the plant was acertain novelty, with us, to have followed the sexual system, without aschism; upon that truly grand and comprehensive scale of nature; whenthe formation of a new genus was necessary; if not, to refer it to someone already made, if such was to be found, in any orthodox author: thespecific name to be formed from some opposed, leading feature, in thehabits of the different species of the genus. But although such were theAuthor’s intentions, when he entered on this business, yet, from a wishto oblige many of the supporters of the work, who have signified a wishthat synonims should be given, an alphab