2 Colorado Plants. [ZOE 
To the end of his life he was closely identified with the 
organization, which he loved with the love of a father. All 
visitors to the Society in the later years of his lifetime cannot 
fail to recall his familiar presence at the drawing-table in shirt- 
sleeves and red-backed vest, or, as in his hours of relaxation, 
leaning back in his chair with the stem of a cob pipe between 
his lips. He retained his sight marvelously, making to the last 
all his studies and drawings with a small hand lens, and finding 
any aid unnecessary to his reading and writing. His hair was 
just beginning to change from brown to gray when he died. 
His personal character was above reproach; no one ever 
imputed to him falsehood or unfair. dealing. His botanical 
statements, though sometimes erroneous, were true so far as he 
was concerned, and always made in good faith; but. he was a 
dreamy, imaginative man, full of poetic fancies, which often in 
descriptions caused him to dwell unduly upon some point which 
caught his fancy. His habit of tracing ‘* correspondencies ” 
between the material world and its organisms and the mental 
states of man, often appeared in his botanical writings. The 
first description of ‘‘ Marah,” for instance, was followed by 
a small sermon on the “ bitter waters’”’ of affliction, and to the 
type of Ouercus Morehus is appended the following note: 
‘‘Abram’s Oak named from the circumstance of Abram’s first encamp- 
ment in the oak groves of Moreh, on his journey to Egypt (Egypt in 
correspondential language signifies Natural Sciences).”’ 
His childlike enthusiasm and unworldliness impressed all 
who. met him, He asked of the world only the means of 
simplest living. He lived a happy life and died respected. 
Would there were more like him. 
NOTES ON SOME COLORADO PLANT'S. 
BY ALICE EASTWOOD. 
RANUNCULUS ALISMASFOLIUS Geyer. This is described in 
Coulter’s Manual as having leaves with entire margins. This is 
misleading; for they are as often dentate with scattered teeth, © 
RANUNCULUS MACAULEYI Gray. This varies on every moun-_ 
tain range where it has been found. It grows along the edge of _ 
