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by June the collecting fever had hit Heller hard and he was trying Chico and 

 his other Sacramento Valley places; on June 23 he was just back from south- 

 ern California and Catalina ; and on June 25 he was writing from Yosemite 

 Valley. In July he finally went to Nevada but spent the summer collecting and 

 was not really settled in Reno until the fall of 1908. 



Kennedy during this period was tied to his duties at Nevada but found 

 time to write short articles for the journal "Muhlenbergia" which Heller was 

 publishing. This journal, as Heller told his prospective subscribers, Cusick, 

 Blumer, Beattie, Suksdorf, and others, was strictly concerned with systematic 

 botany of the higher plants, in contrast, of course, to such other journals as 

 were then being published. Kennedy joined with Heller in the publishing of 

 "Muhlenbergia" in January, 1909. 



Once together at Reno, Heller and Kennedy undertook work on Trifolium 

 in earnest and borrowed material from many herbaria, both in the United 

 States and abroad. Although Heller handled a good deal of the detail, the work 

 on Trifolium was always referred to as Kennedy's while Heller kept up a 

 running interest in a scattering of large and taxonomically difficult genera 

 always with Lupinus a little in the lead. In November, 1911 he wrote W. W. 

 Eggleston in his typically sincere but slightly cocky way "You mention that 

 you are planning to work over Lupinus, and I gain from the way you put it 

 that you are thinking of monographing the genus. If you have kept track of 

 "Muhlenbergia" for the past two or three years you will find that I have been 

 working at that genus quite a bit, and have announced my present writings as 

 preliminary to an illustrated monograph. I have been living among lupines for 

 the past nine years, and all that time have been studying the genus in the field, 

 and for over a year have been growing some of them in the greenhouse. Last 

 summer I put in much of my time while in Washington, New York and Cam- 

 bridge, in looking up the types of Lupinus and getting photographs of them. 

 I am putting an article into type right now that should do something toward 

 clearing up the muddle about L. laxiflorits, and have settled the status of 

 L. bicolor and L. micranthus by a special trip to the Columbia River* where I 

 obtained L. bicolor from the type locality and typical material of L. micranthus. 

 Unless you are able to get a better field knowledge of the genus than I have 

 and a better array of supplementary information in general, you are liable to 

 come out second best in the matter of a monograph. I am giving you this 

 rather lengthy statement of the case in the hope that you will take up some 

 other of the many genera needing an overhauling, and at which no one is 

 working, such as Phacelia, Castilleja, Penstemon, and a host of others. But 

 they should all be illustrated." 



During this same period McDermott published her "Illustrated Key to 



*Made in May, 1910. 



