Excerpt from A Manual of Botany for the Northern and Middle States: Part I, Containing Generic Descriptions of the Plants to the North of Virginia, With References to the Natural Orders of Linnaeus, and Jussieu; Part II, Containing Specific Descriptions of the Indigenous Plants, Which Are Well Defined and Established I have now included all the species of indigenous plants, growing in the United States, to the north of Virginia; whose characters are clear and settled. I have not followed those botanists, however, who are so enthusiastically devoted to cutting up and new-naming. Where the division of a genus seemed to be founded in nature, I have adopted it provided I had specimens befbre me suflicient to enable me to judge. The reader is not to suppose, that I have seen all the plants described in this Manual. I have in my collection but about sixteen hundred of them. But I have been very cautious to adopt nothing without the highest authority. 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.