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that there are in America no more useful citizens than foresters. 

 I think there are no higher types of American citizenship than 

 exempHfied by great foresters. I see for the work, unless my 

 vision is all wrong, a great and growing and a most productive 

 future. Upon your zeal, upon your training, and upon your ex- 

 perience and that of other foresters, depends more than anything 

 else the future of the forests of America. From the far-flung 

 national forests, set among the great mountain ranges of the 

 west, to the wood-lots and the timber tracts right here at home, 

 lies your work. I hope that the future of the forests of America 

 will be safe in the hands of American foresters. 



SOME NEW AMERICAN LYTHRA. 



BY J. A. NIKUWLAND. 



Lythrum cordifolium nov. sp. 



Planta glabra gracilis cum ramulis tenuibus permultis et 

 foliis parvis ovatis crassiusculis omnibus magnitudinis aequalis 

 circa 6-8 mm. longis et 2.5-4 mm. latis strictissime oppositis, 

 apice acutis vel obtusiusculis, basi latissime cordatis vel rotundatis 

 sessilibus, marginibus subaspere strigulosis; floribus perpaucis 

 ad ramulorum apices oppositis, axillaribus subsessilibus, cum 

 duobus bracteis linearibus sub hypanthio striato, 5 mm. longo. 

 Calix breviter denticulatus vel fere edentatus, et sum appendicibus 

 inter sepala longis recurvatis subulatis. Florum aliae partes 

 ignotac. 



Plant very slender glabrous with long slender branches, and 

 numerous verv small ovate cordate thickish leaves, about uniform 

 in size and shape throughout, about 6-8 m^m. long, 2.5-4 mm. 

 wide strictly opposite, acute or obtusish at the apex and broadly 

 cordate to rounded sessile at the base. Margins roughish strigulose. 

 Flowers few aggregated near the ends of the slender branches 

 axillary, opposite, subsessile with two small linear bracts below 

 the hypanthium, which is ridged and about 5 mm. long. Calyx 

 teeth very short, almost obliterated; intersepalar appendages 

 or processes long, recurved, subulate. Other flower parts unknown 

 as the specimen was in bud from which the description was made. 



The specimen is rather young; the flowers not yet fully 



