Excerpt from Flora Diaetetica: Or, History of Esculent Plants: Both Domestic and Foreign; In Which They Are Accurately Described, and Reduced to Their Linnaen Generic and Specific Names; With Their English Names Annexed, and Ranged Under Eleven General Heads Though they have taken much pains to be underlined, yet it is frequently out or the powerwofihe moft expert Botanift, to be certain of 9.139: l plants they mention for want: of their defcrlptions being delivered according to the language of B0 tany, or', if the plants were fuch. 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.