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local species to the known flora of Wisconsin, but because it 

 extended the range of the species westward almost a thousand 

 miles, its westerly limit being- set in the Manuals at the Po- 

 I'cno Mts. of Pennsylvania. 



Before we left Douglas Co., I examined many another 

 witches' broom for Arceuthobium, but in every case with nega- 

 tive results. I am very thankful that I had a mycologist for a 

 companion that morning. 



Delevan, Wis. 



FOREIGNERS ON THE FARM. 



npHE wild blossoms of the old farms where we go to spend 

 *■ our summer vacations are very different today from 

 those that beautified the land two hundred years ago when our 

 ancestors settled it. As their plows turned up the flowery sod 

 to make a loamy bed for tlieir cultivated crops, tlie native plants 

 were driven every year furthei into the wilderness, until now 

 as we sit in our easy chairs and look out upon waving fields of 

 grain and grass wc have small conception of that wild charm 

 of fragrant, blossoming glades and meadows that so delighted 

 the early explorers 



Of the myriads of lilies, irises, wild peas, roses, painted 

 cups, violets, cranes-] )i lis, anemones, meadow rues, polygalas, 

 gentians phloxes, asters, goldenrods. and orchids that nature 

 prodigally planted where the farms of our Atlantic seaboard 

 now are, not a thousandth part remains today, and these only 

 by sufferance along neglected fence-rows or in bits of long- 

 hoarded woodland. 



In their stead, following in the wake of the devouring 

 plow, has come up a host of foreigners — plants from over the 

 sea, their seeds brought hither mingled with garden seeds or in 

 ship's ballast, or clinging like the vegetable tramps they are to 

 the wrappings of merchandise 



