:i:i'()RT f)F THE STATE I'.OTANIST I917 



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I Irusl lliat lliis in fornialion will cover your in(|uir_\-, and 1 assure you 

 llial if there is anylhini;- further thai 1 can tell you about this collection 

 I will be onl_\- too glad to do so and to assist ycju in every way possible. 

 Hoping that this will i)rove satisfactory, with my kindLsl ret^ards, I am, 



Very truly yours 

 John Hx^kley 



The inference to l)e drawn from this letter to Doctor Clarke, that 

 the plants were collected near Little Falls and inadvertently left in 

 the Brook's house, is not borne out by the labels accompanying the 

 specimens. All excepting about a dozen were collected at or near 

 Ucica during the month of May 1832. A very few were collected 

 at Little Falls, Paris and other localities. 



A glance at the list of species, shows that the bundle contained 

 a fairly representative collection of plants which bloom during 

 May in the vicinity of Utica, and it is quite possible that the 

 collection represents a set of common flowering plants of that season 

 which Professor Gray presented to some member of the Brooks 

 family. This assumption is further borne out by the fact that the 

 specimens are not very ample, but just a small or fairly good speci- 

 men of each species. There are also very few duplicates and very 

 few rare species, if we except C o 1 1 i n s i a v e r n a , wh'ch in 

 those days was said to be common near Utica, but is now a rare 

 plant in our flora. 



Following is a list of the species represented, using the names of 

 current botanical literature: 



Actaca alba 



" rubra 

 Acer spicatum 

 Anemone quinquefolia * 



" canadensis 



Arisacma triphyllum 

 Asplenium felix-foemina 

 Bicuculla cucullaria 

 Capnoides sempervirens 

 Carex bullata 



" bromoides 



" crinita 



" deweyana 



" diandra 



" foUiculata 



" flcxuosa 



Carex flava 



" festucacea 



'■' granularis 



" canescens 



" gracillima 



" swanii 



" hystricina 



" hirtifolia 



" echinata 



" laxiflora 



" lasiocarpa 



" lupulina 



" livida 



" Icptalea 



■ " lacustris 



" oligocarpa 



