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Excerpt from Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 1878, Vol. 15 The following contribution towards a history of the known species of North American plants needs little of introduction or explanation, and nothing of excuse. With the purpose of giving a clew to whatever may have been published respecting each species, all the accessible works touching upon the systematic botany of this country, since the adoption of the Linnean system of nomen clature, have been consulted, including those in the library of the Cambridge Herbarium and the general library of Harvard Univer sity, the Public Library of Boston, the library of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and others of less importance, and to some extent also the Congressional Library at Washington. Citations at second hand have been only sparingly used. 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.