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Excerpt from An Illustrated Guide to the Flowering Plants of the Middle Atlantic and New England States (Excepting the Grasses and Sedges): The Descriptive Text Written in Familiar Language The illustrations have been drawn by myself, mostly from the fresh living plants, but a small number of the drawings I have been obliged to make from the dried specimens in my herbarium. These drawings illustrate a very large proportion of our native plants, including nearly every species that the amateur is likely to meet. The book includes two parts. The first part is an outline of structural botany intended to be sufficient to enable a beginner to use with advantage the second and main part. The work has been the occupation of the hours of recreation from professional labor, a relaxation from the exacting demands of every-day routine of surgical practice and of the writing of professional books and papers, occupations which have filled the larger measure of the time at my disposal. It has, however, been an agreeable task to turn from the severe tension of professional pursuits to the refreshing attractions of this delightful branch of natural science. 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.