378 Gray’s Manual of Botany. 
quaintance with the many wild flowers in their native haunts ; 
and still larger numbers that look forward with delight to the 
commencement of their botanical studies. 
and to science abroad by his former botanical works. Professor 
Gray has been occupied for many years with the special study of 
American botany. He has traversed the land north and south, 
in order to acquire that critical knowledge which was demand 
for his contemplated works. In connection with Prof. 'Torrey, 
who had led the way in the science and sti]] stands preeminent, 
truth and error—multiplying greatly the difficulties and trials o~ 
is requ 
red to reduce the full treatise to a simplified and well digested 
earner and true to the science. This difficulty is more strongly 
appreciated ed mind. It ism 
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