34 Nelson Some New Western Plants and Their Collectors. 



In Utah we have a school man in the person of A. 0. Gar- 

 rett, the science teacher in the Salt Lake High School, who is 

 well known among botanists because of his collection and dis 

 tribution of the parasitic fungi of his State. He has also made 

 extensive collections of the seed plants and many species of 

 interest, as well as some novelties, are thus being made known. 



New Mexico has for many years been a land of great interest. 

 Prof. E. 0. Wooton and his co-workers are.finding it so to-day. 

 The Agricultural College, at Mesilla Park, is getting together a 

 collection that will need to be studied by anyone who would 

 know the flora of that region. 



Professor Elias Nelson, whose excellent work upon the two 

 genera Phlox and Antennaria has not been forgotten, is at work 

 in Idaho. While he is not now engaged professionally in botan 

 ical work, he has lost none of his interest in it. Always 

 alert to the best things about him, he is gradually accumulat 

 ing some choice examples of the Idaho plants. Though con 

 nected with the Experiment Station at Moscow, his address for 

 the present is at Twin Falls. 



One naturally expects that the men who are connected with 

 educational institutions will show a degree of interest commen 

 surate with the work for which their departments stand. 

 Pleasing as this is, it is perhaps more gratifying to see that the 

 interest of those who are engaged in other lines of work is 

 scarcely less than that of the professional botanists. Among 

 this latter class I wish to mention the following : 



Mr. J. Lunell, M. D., of Leeds, North Dakota, though his 

 professional duties demand much time, has found the leisure 

 for studying his flora in a most critical way and of substanti 

 ating his studies by very excellent specimens. 



It is well known that Mr. George E. Osterhout is a careful, 

 systematic botanist, as is attested by his papers published from 

 time to time. It is perhaps not so well known that his plant 

 studies are his recreation and that his main business is a com 

 mercial one in the little town of New Windsor, Colorado, where 

 he has resided for many years. 



Colorado has yet another collector in Mr. Earl L. Johnston 

 who seeks out the unvisited nooks in the Colorado mountains 

 and brings back some of the choice things that are there pro 

 duced. Mr. Johnston's home is at Evans, Colorado. 



