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Excerpt from Flora Cestrica: An Herborizing Companion for the Young Botanists of Chester County, State of Pennsylvania When this revised Edition was commenced, it was contemplated - with the aid of kind Friends - to insert a brief description of all the indigenous species of the Vegetable Kingdom which had been detected in our County, - together with such introduced plants as had become naturalized, or were Cultivated for useful purposes. It soon became apparent, however, that the lower Orders (especially the Fungi) were so multitudinous, as well as obscure, that it would require more time to accomplish the undertaking, than I, at least, had any right to reckon upon. It was found, also, that to include the whole, would render the work inconveniently voluminous. A descriptive enumeration of the Fungi, alone, would make a respectable volume. It was therefore concluded to omit all below the Lichens, - and leave that portion of our Botany to the future enterprise of our Chester County Naturalists. For the account of our Mosses and Hepaticae, I am indebted to the researches, and kind attention, of Thomas P. James, Esq. an enthusiastic Bryologist of Philadelphia. The Lichens have been collected and determined by Dr. Ezra Michener, of this County, - a Naturalist from whose acumen, diligence, and indomitable perseverance, we may fairly expect as thorough an exploration of every department of our Cryptogamy, as the active duties of his Profession, and the life-time of an Individual, will permit. 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.