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POPULAR FLORA, 



A CLASHIFirATION ANM> DICSCUH'TION OF 



THE COMMON PLANTS OF THE COUNTRY, 



BOTH WILD AND CULTIVATED, UNDEU TIIEIU NATURAL OUDEUS. 



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A Flora is a botanical account of the plants of a country or district, with the 

 orders or families systematically arranged under the classes, the genera under the 

 orders, and the species (when there are more than one) under the genus they be- 

 long to, — along with the rlmrarto'x of each class, order, genus, iVc. ; that is, an 

 enumeration of the [)rincipal and surest marks, or some of them, l)y which they are 

 to be distinguished. A full Flora of all the ])lants which grow in this country, 

 including those in common cultivation, would at the least (ill a large volume ; and 

 would be both too expensive and too unwieldy for the young beginner. The 

 Manual o/tlte liotavij of the Nortlifrn Uniipd K^tafrs (including Virginia and Ken- 

 tucky, and extending west to the Mississippi liiver) is a volume of over 600 pages, 

 or 700, including the Mosses. And this work does not include foreign plants 

 cultivated in our iields or gardens, except those that have run wihl in some places. 

 The PoruLAR Flora, which occupies the rest of this book, is for the use of 

 beginners, and is made as brief, simple, and easy as possible. For greater facility 

 in the study, it includes only the common wild plants of the country (especially of 

 the Northern States), and those ordinarily cultivated in our fields or gardens, for 

 use or ornament. The families or genera which are too ditticidt for young begin- 

 ners, such as Grasses, Sedges, the large family of plants with comj)Ound flowera 

 (the Sunflower Family), and the like, are altogether omitted or only briefly 



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