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THE PLANT WORLD 



rough gray bark. 



Leaves deeply cut into rounded lobes, dark green 

 above, dull brown below, turning yellow- 

 brown in the autumn ; acorn small. 



Overcup Oak ^Quercus lyrata, Walt.) 

 (Fig. 17). — A large, handsome tree; along 

 streams. Leaves lobed in beyond the middle, 

 thin ; acorn round, nearly or quite immersed 

 in the thin cup. 



Mossy - Cup Oak {,Quercus macrocarpa, 

 Michx.) (Fig. 16). — A large tree with flaky 

 bark. Leaves irregularly lobed, the middle 

 lobe the larger, 4 to 8 inches long ; acorn 

 large, the scales of the cup forming a fringe 

 about the nut. 



Henry Elwood Baum. 



By William E. Safford. 



It is with a feeling of deep sorrow that I write of my dead friend, 

 Henry Elwood Baum. During his long siege of illness and throughout 

 the period of his fancied convalescence, when he battled so manfully for 

 health and strength, I could not help sharing in his hope for recovery, 

 though I knew at heart what the end must be. When it did come, and 

 I stood beside him in his last sleep, looking at the tired face, upon which 

 an expression of beautiful peace had at last settled, I felt like one who 

 beheld a younger brother wrongfully condemned to die ; and a feeling of 

 outrage against nature itself overcame me. Try as I might, it was impos- 

 sible to convince myself that it was the act of Providence to take away 

 this boy at the very threshold of a career which promised so much. I 

 never had a friend more disinterested, an associate more eager to be of 

 help, nor an acquaintance whose tastes and natural endowments so emi- 

 nently fitted him for the life's work he had chosen. 



Henry Elwood Baum was born in Washington April 6, 1881 ; he died 

 December 20, 1903, in the twenty-third year of his age. He was the son 

 of William H. and Elizabeth HenningBaum. His father, a well known 

 business man of this city, is a descendant of John Christian Baum, a 

 Hessian, who came to America during the Revolution and settled first in 

 Pennsylvania and then in Georgetown. Henry was educated in the graded 

 schools and at the Central High School of Washington, from which he 



