A Flora of the State of New-York, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from A Flora of the State of New-York, Vol. 1: Comprising Full Descriptions of All the Indigenous and Naturalized Plants Hitherto Discovered in the State, With Remarks on Their Economical and Medicinal Properties The Act for a Geological Survey of New-York, passed by the Legislature in 1836, makes provision for a full account of the Natural History of the State. Having been appointed to take charge of the Botanical Department of the Survey, I present in these volumes the results of my labors. From the following historical sketch, it will be seen, that while much has been done to make known the vegetable productions of the State, this is the first separate work in which all the known plants of New-York have been enumerated and described. The earliest treatise on the Botany of New-York, that has come under my observation, is the "Plantæ Coldenhamiæ" of Governor Golden, published in the Acts of the Royal Society of Upsal for the year 1744. It is an account of the plants growing spontaneously in the neighborhood of Coldenham, in Orange County, and embraces only the first twelve classes of the Linnæan System. The second part was (I believe) never published. Kalm, a pupil of Linnæus (and afterwards a Bishop), visited North America in 1747, and collected plants in New-York, which are often referred to in the writings of Linnæus, and many of them are preserved in his herbarium. Dr. Wangenheim, a Hessian surgeon in the British Army during the American Revolution, made numerous observations on the plants of this country, particularly on those of New-York. After his return to Germany, he published a work on the trees of North America. Michaux the elder travelled in the northern and southern parts of the State in 1792, while engaged in collecting plants for the French Government, as well as for his Flora Boreali-Americana, which was published in Paris in 1803. He was accompanied by his son, who afterwards revisited this country, and travelled extensively in most of the States east of the Mississippi, and, on returning to Europe, published, in 1810, his splendid work on the Forest Trees of North America. The younger Michaux examined the valley of the Hudson, the borders of Lake Champlain, and a considerable portion of the western counties. 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.