Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ... FLORA. An enumeration of indigenous and naturalized plants found growing in Bucks county. Pennsylvania. Although Bucks county is one of the oldest in the state, the author is not aware that an attempt has ever been made to catalogue her rich Flora. There is little doubt that some of the older botanists have collected within our borders. Bartram, Nuttall, Durand, Michaux, Schweinitz, and others, illustrious in botanical annals, have most probably visited portions of our territory, and described new species from typical specimens, first gathered from our soil. As an item of interest in this connection, Professor Porter, of Kaston, has kindly furnished an extract from a letter of Zacchcus Collins (a distinguished botanist of Philadelphia, and in whose honor Nuttall has named a genus of Figworts CMinsia) to the eminent botanist Muhlenberg, dated August 2od, 1813, " I was lately in Bucks county, about five miles north-west of Bristol, a spot very interesting to me botanieally and geologically. Although my opportunity was transient from bad weather, I met with several plants for the first time, such as your Malaxis-ophioglossoides, Woodsia-onschioides, Orchis, perhaps incisa, and here some years back I first recognized Hydropeltis-purpurea, Crotonopsislinearis, Michx., and the only Pennsylvania spot known to me of Arbitus-uva-ursi. In fine the Magnolias, the glabrous Prinos, Ilex, etc., seemed involuntarily to transport me to Jersey." Botanical nomenclature has changed somewhat in sixty years, but the botanical student will have no difficulty in tracing these plants under their more recent names, in the catalogue. The plants collected by the veteran Collins, so many years ago, are still found in those haunts (save only the Bearberry), and they...
