Excerpt from A Guide to the Wild Flowers East of the Mississippi and North of VirginiaThis book is for those to whom it is difficult, or tedious, or perhaps impossible, to find wild flowers in technical works, and irritating not to find them in How to Know books.It includes all the more conspicuous wild flowers that grow north of Virginia, and east of the Mississippi, except the grasses, sedges, and rare or technical species not likely to be interesting to the amateur. Professional botanists have several ways of sorting this mass of species into plant fami lies, but the present book ignores such technicalities, for the average nature-lover cares more about the identity of plants, than about the family of them.The arrangement of the book is, therefore, quite different from the current manuals. In them the sequence of plant families is obligatory. Here simpler and more direct methods of identification are used.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.