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The special interest of this vasculum Hes in the fact that it car- 

 ried the first specimens of the spruce mistletoe, Arceuthobium 

 pusillum, for she was the discoverer of that strange plant. She had 

 read of the ravages of a parasite on conifers of the far West, 

 and she set out to determine what might be the cause of a similar 

 trouble she had observed about Warrensburg in Warren County, 

 New York. She found the mistletoe in 1871. Charles H. Peck is 



Mrs. Millington's collecting-case. 



the author of the species, having described it in a State Museum 

 Report dated 1873 (25th Report, p. 69). It was based on collec- 

 tions by Peck himself, but it appears that Mrs. Millington had 

 told him (as she also stated to me) of her discovery, and in the 

 original description is the statement that it had been previously 

 found near Warrensburg by Mrs. Millington. The State Herbarium 

 contains a sheet of Peck's collection on which he has written 

 (as Dr. House informs me) "these specimens are from the same 

 locality in which the species was first discovered by Mrs. L. A. 

 Millington." A letter from her is on file in the New York State 

 Museum giving Dr. Peck definite directions for finding the locality. 

 She had walked to the place and back, and the locality was fifteen 

 miles from her home. 



Lucy Millington contributed to botanical publications. Thus 

 in Volume HI, number 9 of the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical 



