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INTRODUCTORY. 
State and its immense capabilities. Such knowledge can only result in a 
higher appreciation and a greater admiration for the wonderful resources 
of our highly favored commonwealth. 
In furtherance of the object in view, I have esteemed myself fortunate 
in securing the aid of a scientific gentleman peculiarly well fitted to 
make a satisfactory report upon the “ Medicinal Plants of Tennessee.” 
Augustin Gattinger, M.D., — a life-long practitioner of medicine, 
driven to America by the revolutionary troubles of 1848-49 in Germany, 
and since then dwelling in different portions of Tennessee, always an en- 
thusiastic student of Botany in the field— has, by my request, prepared 
this work, which I commit to the public, hoping that many will be profited 
by its pages, and that it will prove of great commercial value to the State. 
T. F. P. Allison, Commissioner. 
