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phytic woods, mostly on a gently sloping hillside, only a few 

 rods from the lake beach. Medsger made a photograph of a 

 clump. Since Dr. House states that this plant has been col- 

 lected but a few times in the northern counties of the State of 

 New York, I thought this worth reporting. 



G. Clyde Fisher 



American Mu.seum of Natural History 



S. M. TRACY AS A BOTANIST 

 The recent death of S. M. Tracy has been felt as a keen per- 

 sonal loss by all who have known him not only as a broad- 

 minded, many-sided investigator but as a most genial companion 

 and friend. His main life work was with forage plants 

 adapted to the Southern States and with the effort for secur- 

 ing a greater diversification of southern agriculture. 



I had been experimenting with fungicides in the treatment 

 of pear scab when I first met Tracy. I was delighted to find 

 that he was interested in fungi and showed him my cultures. 

 We at once became great friends and continued to correspond 

 regarding fungi until the time of the New Orleans Cotton Ex- 

 position which took us both South where we both remained. I 

 lived for ten years on the Gulf coast of Mississippi while he 

 was director of the State Experimental Station at Starkville. 

 He bought a sunnner home on the north coast of Biloxi Bay 

 not far from us where he spent his vacations collecting and 

 studying the Gulf coast flora. It was during this period that 

 I was most closely associated with him tho later we were com- 

 panions on several extended collecting trips, notably the one to 

 the La Plata Mountains in southwest Colorado in company 

 with C. F. Baker and at another time a long trip through the 

 Davis Mountain country in western Texas. 



As a horticulturist and practical green house man Tracy 

 was naturally greatly interested in plant breeding!. He did 

 much practical work in the selection and improvement of va- 

 rieties. At one time he was greatly interested in the long 

 staple upland cottons and did much to improve and stabilize 



