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this is Astragalus lentiginosus, a name applied to a very local form of a 
cosmopolitan species. So Astragalus diphysus, a far more representative 
form, must go as a variety of lentiginosus, a case where the tail wags the 
dog 
BOTANISTS WHOM I HAVE KNOWN 
s a woeful lack of information about the makers of the 
systematic botany of today,— the collectors and the writers on western 
bota has been my g' ortune to have belonged to the middie 
period. Pursh and Michaux were gone when I began to botanize in 
1875. Nuttall was still alive, though old. He died in 1859 when I was 
seven years old. Torrey lived until I was twenty, but he had dropped 
botanical work. Douglas was dead also, and many of the 
his steely black eyes indicative of his fighting nature. \o® 
about pide and eri in Cont. 16.) The photo of Torrey, issued by the 
Bulletin at the time o 
: i hom he 
that of Sir Joseph Hooker, endeared him to all w é 
phos of aE is from the Botanical Gazette. There is also a copy of 
this photo at the Pomona College herbarium. 
WATSON a 
: : : i ished at the deaths of 
It is noticeable that in the articles publis ats ; 
three men, there is no tribute of personal friendship in the review of 
