Flora of the District of Columbia and Vicinity, Vol. 21 PDF Download

Author: A. S. Hitchcock
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ISBN: 9781330671993
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Excerpt from Flora of the District of Columbia and Vicinity, Vol. 21: By Hitchcock and Paul C. Standley, With the Assistance of the Botanists of Washington To a person walking in the country in search of rest from labor tho wild plants are very friendly if he has a speaking acquaintance with them. Such an acquaintance is of untold value as a means of rest and recreation. Yet to most persons our books on botany, instead of opening the path to knowledge, close it with tho barrier of technical language. Botanical science is beginning to recognize the prohibitive effect of this barrier and to take steps to open the path to tho public. The Flora of the District of Columbia and Vicinity now presented for publication is provided with keys to the families, genera, and species, and in the preparation of these keys common words have been used extensively as substitutes for technical and unusual words. This is especially true of the key to the families, which is so written that a person with almost no knowledge of botany can trace a strange plant to its proper family. The identification of many of the native species is made still easier by the illustrations, and it is only tho limitation of space and cost that has prevented the more extensive use of these photographic reproductions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.