Author: John Kunkel Small

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-06-27

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9781332783151

Excerpt from Flora of Lancaster County: Being Descriptions of the Seed-Plants Growing Naturally in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania This handbook presents short descriptions of the seed-plants growing naturally in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, together with statements of the habitats and distribution of the species, and also their owering sea sons. Analytical keys, formed by contrasting diagnostic characters, pre cede the descriptions of the families, genera, and species, and a general key to the orders precedes the descriptive ora. The region covered by this ora has been the scene of almost continuous botanical exploration and study for nearly a century and a half, definitely beginning with the observations of Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg at Lancaster in the year 1780. However, only one authentic list1 of the owering plants known to grow naturally in the county has been published. In the preface to this catalogue the author says: The following catalogue is based upon the results of explorations made during a residence in the city of Lancaster between the years 1853 and 1866. All the plants contained in it were seen and examined by the author, with the single exception of Quercus phellos, L.,2 and specimens of the rarer species, about which there might be any question, are at hand for reference in his own herbarium3 and in the herbaria of the Linnaean Society and the State Normal School at Millersville. 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."