Excerpt from The Monthly Flora, or Botanical Magazine, 1846, Vol. 1 AN illustrated work on Botany has been long wanted by the Ame rican Public, which without leaving the path of Science would be written in a popular and pleasing form; an object that this under taking is intended to accomplish. We purpose during its progress to give all the foreign as well as native plants of any celebrity, so that the numbers of this work will form in a few years the largest illustrated Botany in the world. A peculiar feature of it, and one which we h0pe the American public will be most pleased with, is the history and drawings of the wild flowers of our country. 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.