Excerpt from Flower Guide: Revised and With New Illustrations, Wild Flowers East of the RockiesA plant is a wonderful organism, yet how few of us realize it as we casu ally glance at the ¿owers growing by the wayside. We see a beautiful ¿ower, we know that in the course of time it withers and fades away, and we know that the next year the plant grows up again, sends forth its buds, which at the proper time unfold their petals, and so the cycle continues year after year, while we give little thought to the change that occurs. The cause and its effect. Volumes might be written, and a great many have been since the time of Dar win, upon the many interesting processes by which various ¿owers are propo gated. As this book is confined chie¿y to the identification of ¿owers, we will give but a few illustrations between ¿owering seasons, We see in most ¿owers a thing of beauty, their real and. To them, most important functions is to pro duce seeds to perpetuate the species.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.