Manual Of The Botany Of The Northern United States Including Virginia Kentucky And All East Of The Mississippi

Author : Asa Gray
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330135822
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Manual Botany Northern United States written by Asa Gray and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Manual Botany Northern United States: Revised Edition; Including Virginia, Kentucky, and All East of the Mississippi; Arranged According to the Natural System This work is designed as a compendious Flora of the Northern portion of the United States, for the use of students and of practical botanists. The first edition (published in 1848) was hastily prepared to supply a pressing want. Its plan, having been generally approved, has not been altered, although the work has been to a great extent twice rewritten, and the geographical range extended. The second edition, much altered, appeared in 1856. The third and fourth were merely revised upon the stereotype plates, and some pages added, especially to the latter. The Garden Botany, an Introduction to a Knowledge of the Common Cultivated Plants, which was prefixed to this fourth edition in 1863, is excluded from the present edition, and is to be incorporated into a simpler and more elementary work, but of wider scope, designed especially for school instruction, and for those interested in cultivation, - entitled Field, Forest, and Garden Botany. In the present edition it has been found also expedient to remand to a supplementary volume the Mosses and Liverworts, so carefully and generously elaborated for the previous editions of this work by my friend, Wm. S. Sullivant, Esq. It is hoped that the Lichenes, if not all the other orders of the Lower Cryptogamia, may be added to this supplementary volume, so that our students may extend their studies into these more recondite and difficult departments of Botany. 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.