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Synoptical Flora of Norlh America, under /-". NeoMexicana, 

 wrote: "A peculiar state of a short-stemmed form, with much 

 less dissected leaves and almost oblong capsule, coll. in central 

 part of Colorado by Brandegee, needs further inquiry." I sup- 

 pose this is the plant to which he referred. It begins to blossom 

 about the first of June. The type specimens were collected in 

 the vicinity of what is known as the Glades, between Fort Collins 

 and Livermore, Larimer County, Colorado, June i8, 1915. 

 Osterhout no. 5233. 



GEORCiE E. Osterhout 



Windsor, Colo. 



Snow Injury to Trees. — A recent visit to Tarry town, N. Y., 

 and a trolley trip from Tarrytown toward White Plains, N. Y., 

 showed the trees suffering severely as a result of breakage from 

 snow. The damage was in the form of broken branches, split 

 trunks, etc., not at all an unusual type of injury, but, to the 

 writer at least, unusual in that it was due to snow and not to ice, 

 and also unusual in its severity. 



The snowstorm had occurred about the middle of December, 

 and was of the ordinary wet snow type as far as my informant 

 had noted, but judging from the results, it evidently must have 

 been more than ordinarily heavy. In Tarrytown, the street 

 had been covered with branches, wires were broken down, and 

 where trees were close together along a street, sidewalks had been 

 made impassable. Without any attempt at making a record of 

 species, it may be noted that dogw^ood, maple, and horse chestnut 

 were seen from which branches had been broken. Probably no 

 kinds were exempt. Nearly every tree testified to the injury by 

 the presence of the pruned stumps of large and small limbs. It 

 may be noted that much of the pruning had left too much stump. 



In open woods outside of Tarrytown, it also appeared that almost 

 every tree had suffered. The gray birches were still bent double. 

 Seplintered scars showed everywhere. Forking trunks were 

 split apart. Very often, of course, the scars showed evidence of 

 bad wood, but in many cases there was no such evidence. Sound 

 limbs as much as four or five inches thick had been broken oft', 

 together with a mass of lesser limbs. For anyone interested in 



