Excerpt from Botanical Explorations in Southern Texas During the Season of 1894 The State of Texas, an empire in itself, comprising one-twelfth of the area of the United States, with great diversity of soil and climate, must necessarily present a corresponding diversity in plant life. When all of its immense area is thoroughly explored, it will undoubtedly yield as many or perhaps more species than are contained within the limits of Gray's Manual. As is stated in the Introduction to the Botany of the Mexican Bound ary Survey, a line drawn from the Pan Handle southeast to the vicinity of Corpus Christi, divides the State into two unequal portions. The smaller eastern part is well watered as a whole, and gives rise to more luxuriant vegetation than the other, where rain is uncertain and often scanty. The flora of this eastern section, at least in its northern and. Eastern portions, has many species in common with the adjacent States of Louisiana and Arkansas and the Indian Territory. 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.