BRITTON’S NORTH AMERICAN TREES 
By NATHANIEL Lorp Britton, Director-in-Chief of the N.Y. 
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KERNER AND OLIVER’S NATURAL 
HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
From the German of ANTON KERNER VON MARILAUN, Professor 
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