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CHAPTER XIV. 



A CATALOGUE 



OF THE 



FILICOID AND FLOWERING PLANTS 



OF 



LANCASTER COUNTY, PENN. 



AREANGED IN CONFORMITY WITH ENDLICHER'S 

 GENERA PLANTARUM. 



The following attempt to enumerate the Filicoid and Flower- 

 ing Plants of Lancaster county, is based upon the Index Florat 

 Lancastriensis of that eminent B(Jtaiiist, the late Rev. Dr. 

 Muhlenberg; adding thereto, such species as have been since 

 ascertained to grow in the county, — or which, being found ia 

 the adjacent county of Chester, may be safely enumerated 

 among the Lancaster Plants. The List is, unquestionably, still 

 incomplete ; but it was thought better, generally, to omit 

 plants of doubtful habitat, rather than to insert them on mere 

 conjecture. A few species, however, have been included, as 

 probable natives, — with a mark of doubt []] prefixed. 



By the arrangement in Natural Families, it will be perceived 

 that kindred plants are grouped together according to their 

 structural and other alfinities; thereby rendering the investiga- 

 tion of them more interesting to the Student,— as well as afford- 

 ing a clue to their economical properties. The most usual 

 common, or English Name, is annexed to such Species as have 



