Excerpt from Florae Columbianae Prodromus, Exhibens Enumerationem Plantarum Quae Hactenus Exploratae Sunt, or a Prodromus of the Flora Columbiana, Exhibiting a List of All the Plants Which Have as Yet Been Collected During the spring of the year 1825, after the dissolution of the late Washington Botanical Society, a few gentlemen of this city, devoted to the science of Botany, formed an association, with an earnest determination to explore and to investi gate, de novo, the indigenous plants grow ing in the District of Columbia. The association, under the name of The Botanic club, consisted of Wm. Mechlin, Wm. Rich, Alex'r Mcwilliams, M. D., the compiler, and during the following year, of James W. Robbins, M. D., but who, afterwards, in the succeeding one, removed from the District. The Prodro mus, herewith submitted to the public, is, so far, the result of their investigations to the present time; and, there is no doubt, that, their contemplated Flora, will con tain a much more augmented catalogue, more particularly, among the species, than is now presented. 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.