Excerpt from American Plants, 1909, Vol. 2: Contents (of Volume One and Two) Botany of Southern California With the completion of volume two of American Plants, the editor may perhaps be pardoned for presenting a few words regarding the plan and reason for producing the work. The plan was to index every work of importance on West American botany, and to print a description of every genus, species, variety or form credited to the state of California. As far as possible it was desired to reprint in each case the earliest published description, not only of species generally considered valid, but also of those published that have since been relegated to synonymy - however remote might be the chances of reviving to specific rank. It was also desired to collect all scattered notes, supplemental to the original descriptions, or pertaining to geographical distribution, economic value, synonymy, citing place of publication or the authority for each. Volumes one and two were intended to cover these features for the ora of the southern counties, but the reader will still find the ideal far from realized. Many works yet remain to be consulted and many species must be added to the enumeration here given. The editor hopes to con tinne until all that has been published relative to the California ora is fully indexed, and all valid species described. Nearly half the work is now published, and much of the balance is in ms. May the errors of omission or commission in this volume be corrected 'in the next. 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."