Excerpt from The Genera of North American Plants, Vol. 1: And a Catalogue of the Species, to the Year 1817 Be It Remembered, That on the third day of April, in the forty-second year of the Independence of the United States of America, A.D. 1818, Thomas Nut-tall of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit: "The Genera of North American Plants, and a Catalogue of the Species to the year 1817. By Thomas Nuttall, F. L. S. fellow of the American Philosophical Society, and of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, &c." In conformity to an act of the congress of the United States, intitled, "an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, - And also to the act, entitled "an act supplementary to an act, entitled "an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." 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.