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Excerpt from Synoptical, Vol. 2: Lora of North America This volume commences where the Flora of North America by Torrcy ami Gray stopped, thirty-five years ago, namely nt the close of the great order of Composite; and the present part comprises the remaining Gnmopctuhe. It is intended to complete this Synoptical Flora in two volumes, of about 1200 pages each; the first to cover the ground which was gone over in the work referred to (now wholly out of print as well as antiquated), that is, to contain the orders from Raanncnlaceas to Coin-posit;e, newly elaborated. The next ensuing part of the present volume will be devoted to the Ape take and Gyinnospenme, and the final portion to the Monocotyledones and the Vascular Cryptogamin. Botanists will need no particular explanation of the plan of this work. Geographically it comprises the United States and all the North American continent and islands northward, Greenland excluded. The series of Natural Orders adopted is that of Bentham and Hooker's Genera Plantnrum. The generic characters are given synoptically. but with essential completeness, at the beginning of each order. The characters of sections of genera, when of comparatively high rank, are designated by tho sectional murk (§) and printed in the larger type; and those of first importance, such as may be termed subgenera, are distinguished by having a substantive name. Subsections, and also primary divisions when of low rank, are in small type. Such subdivisions are very freely made, for convenience of analysis and to save repetition of identical phrases under the included species; and they are preferred to artificial keys to the species, because enabling these to be grouped more naturally. 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 d