Contributions to the Flora of Beaver County, From the Mansfield Herbarium, 1865-1903 (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Ira Franklin Mansfield
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334010491
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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Excerpt from Contributions to the Flora of Beaver County, From the Mansfield Herbarium, 1865-1903 Species; also studying the problems as to nativity and objects oflife of all of our wild owers. The in uence of climate as to plants is plainly shown in our county. The Ohio river, with its low altitude, and mild in uences, gives us many owers that range through our southern states, even to Carolina and Georgia; while the high ranges of hills, with altitudes of I 300 feet, along Little Beaver river, with its colder climate, make the ora in many respects like that of the Lake region and Canada. Our entire county is covered with drift of shales and boulders from the ice age, alternating sands, clays and gravels, and the ora of any township depends chie y on which of these soils happen to lie uppermost. Bordering the streams in every township, the hemlock spruce is abundant, and amid their gloomy recesses are found the club mosses, parasites, the handsome pink ladies' slippers Cypripediums, the Aspleniums and Phegopteris ferns in abundance. Along the low valleys and in the peat bogs of Pine swamp above New Gallilee, grow many varieties of Habenarias, with other orchids; also the three royal Osmunda ferns, with fronds six feet high. Each year there is less Opportunity for collecting, the lumberman with his portable saw mill, moves on to fresh spoils, leaving behind an inextricably confused mass of tree tops, broken logs and upturned stumps. The best part of botany after all is not in the books, and to any who find the study dry, we commend camping out with nature herself; that boundless outdoor life, whose interest, beauty and mystery is with us from the cradle to the grave. Forever stimulating inquiry. 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."