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12 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 
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Mrs. T..S. Brandegee. 
In. these sketches of botanists whom I have known it must 
not be assumed that I am attempting biographies, my aim is to 
mirror to you the person as he appeared to me, and in an unvar- 
nished light, for | abhor slobber, and the petty lying that passes 
under the cloak of diplomacy (see Jepson’s reviews of the work of 
Greene and others). 
Mrs. Braudegee was Kate (Katherine) Layne, the oldest in a 
family of five children. Susan was next, like Kate, a husky 
und red-blooded woman of tireless energy, who married Mr. Stock- 
ton and bore him nine children, and lived and died at Ramona 
where her son still lives. Sophronia was next who died young. 
Then Alfred the cripple was next and he also died early. The 
!t ig recorded that the Laynes were of the Bolling stock, as was 
Brandegee himself, 1t seems to be a law of nature that brainy 
he first record of the family is of their being in Salt Lake 
forties. Mrs, 
It is evident that the home life was not pleasant, because of 
the father's violent temper, and because of the early death of the 
mother. The two older girls were so self-contained that they of- 
ten fought in hair-pulling scraps, and yet to the end they dearly 
loved eachother and corresponded to the end of life. 
The two girls were almost opposites. Susan was very affec- 
