Excerpt from A Manual of Botany for the Northern States, Comprising Generic Descriptions of All Phenongamous and Cryptogamous Plants to the North of Virginia, Hitherto Described: With References to the Natural Orders of Linneus and Jussieu Every one, who has passed through the first struggles of a student in practical botany, recollects the embarrass ments in which he was perpetually involved, by the multi tude of foreign genera contained in the European systems. Doctor Bigelow's Boston Flora proves the very great relief which is afforded to the student by a system of plants limit ed to his own particular district. But there is a middle way in this as in other things. The northern section of the Uni ted States is sufficiently contracted for this object; and the common cultivated exotics ought certainly to be included. 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.