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Excerpt from Florula Bostoniensis: A Collection of Plants of Boston and Its Vicinity, With Their Generic and Specific Characters, Principal Synonyms, Descriptions, Places of Growth, and Time of Flowering, and Occasional Remarks I have in general preferred to retain the older names of genera, especially such as were in the first edition of this work, introducing as subgenera the divisions of later botanists, together with some others, to which future distributors will, no doubt, give names. It is vain to attempt keeping pace with the continually shifting nomenclature of plants; and it may justly be questioned whether the benefit which results from making generic distinctions more precise, is not more than counter balanced by the load of synonyms which it brings with it, and the discouraging necessity which it imposes on students of the science, to unlearn continually what they have ac quired. 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.