Excerpt from The Flora of Oxfordshire, and Its Contiguous Counties, (Comprising the Flowering Plants Only): Arranged in Easy and Familiar Language, According to the Linnaean and Natural Systems; Preceded by an Introduction to Botany, With Illustrative Plantes The design of the present work is to furnish the Bota nical Student, in the plainest language, with sufficient elementary instruction, to ascertain the name of any wild, flowering plant, he may discover, within the assigned limits of the work, and to point out to him any economi cal uses, medicinal virtues, or peculiarity of structure as bearing upon Natural Theology, in the plant made out. 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.