Flora Americae Septentrionalis; or, a catalogue of the plants of North America ... together with their English names, the places where they grow, their different uses, and the authors who have described and figured them / By John Reinhold Forster.

  • Forster, Johann Reinhold, 1729-1798.
Date:
1771
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Credit: Flora Americae Septentrionalis; or, a catalogue of the plants of North America ... together with their English names, the places where they grow, their different uses, and the authors who have described and figured them / By John Reinhold Forster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    — »1 ———i—. I.I - -I ... — ..i. i l ... % T O T H E READER. ’ THESE few Iheets are a mere Catalogue of plants. They might be thought of very little ufe, and even fuperfluous, after the publication of Dr. Gronovius's Flora Virginica: but my plan was to give to the Englifh reader a Ihort enumeration of the American plants with Englifli names : At the fame time I added fome few plants which are but lately difcovered, and were not known by Dr. Gronovius. The economical and medici¬ nal ufes of fome plants are another addition. Having publifhed a Cataloguer of North American animals, my friends thought an enumeration of plants executed in the fame manner, would contribute much towards promoting the ftudy of the natural hiftory of North America, and this was my chief motive for pub- lifhing this performance, and to join it to the Fauna Ame¬ rica Septentrionalis. \ Thefc*