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Excerpt from The Vegetation of the Ozark Region in Southern Illinois
Notwithstanding the extraordinary interest of the flora, extreme southern Illinois has received but little attention from botanists. Andre Michaux was undoubtedly the first botanical col lector to traverse the region, and the type localities of many of the species named by him are in southern Illinois, seldom with a more definite location. 30 quote Gray Michaux, in August, 1795, ascended the Wabash to Vincennes, crossed the country to the Ill in01s river, and devoted the months of September, October, and Nov. 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.
