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Excerpt from Botany of the Northern and Middle States; Or a Description of the Plants Found in the United States, North of Virginia, Arranged According to the Natural System: With a Synopsis of the Genera According to the Linnaean System
This work being intended as a text-book for the be ginner, as well as a convenient manual for the more ad vanced botanist, I have added a Sketch of the Rudi ments of Botany, drawn chie?y from Prof. Lindley's Outlines, and the article in the Encyclopmdia, to Which I have before referred - a Glossary of Terms, and a Table of the Linnaean Classes and Orders. And to ac commodate those who wish to investigate plants accord ing to the Artificial System, a Synopsis of the Genera is also introduced, containing under each genus a reference to the Natural Order, and the page where the species are described. I have not introduced any cultivated exotics, for the reasons, lst, that it would have materi ally increased the size and expense of the work; and 2dly, that observation has satisfied me of the injurious effects, of commencing the study of botany with the ex amination of plants, which are often so much changed in their characters by a difference of climate, soil, culti vation, 8m.
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