Excerpt from English Wild Flowers: To Be Found by the Wayside, Fields, Hedgerows, Rivers, Moorlands, Meadows, Mountains, and Sea-Shore Included are a few pages descriptive of the dif ferent forms of roots, leaves, flowers, and flower stems, together with a brief summary of the principles of classification adopted by botanists, in order that those who wish to collect specimens of the wild flowers for a herbarium may have some guide for their classification and arrangement. 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.