Excerpt from Useful Wild Plants of the United States and Canada Works for complete scientific descriptions of the plants discussed: Gray's Manual of Botany of the Northern United States (east of the Rockies); Brit ton and Brown's Illustrated Flora of the United States and Canada (the same territory as covered by Gray); Small's Flora of the Southeastern United States; Watson's Botany of the Geological Survey of California; Coulter's' New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains; Wootton and Standley's. 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.