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Yes, beloved friends, into the joy of 
heaven her spirit has passed. We can- 
not ease our souls from the sorrow of 
parting but we may joy with her that 
her victory is won and this hour may 
be to our faith an hour of triumph. Her 
pathway was Christ and in the mid- 
summer she has been called to the 
Summertime of joyful and unbroken 
service with the Saviour whom she 
loved. If we follow her as she followed 
Christ, we too, shall one day be called 
to the Summerland of love and fruition 
of all hope. 
Some morning when the wind has set 
his bugles all a-blowing 
I shall have gone away perhaps, 
wthout the flowers knowing 
That I who knew, their every want, 
-thrice happy in the tending— 
Have gone to the fair gardens, where 
the Summer has no ending. 
And love shall have no power to hold 
me with caresses tender, 
For I shall pass the sunrise gold, the 
moon’s white silent splendor, 
Beyond the sunset and the dawn where 
never word was spoken, 
Where since creation’s natal morn 
the stilness slept unbroken. 
I know not of the gates of pearl, on 
golden hinges turning 
The glory bright, more than the light 
of countless suns a-burning; 
These thing await me, I would be no 
reluctant comer, 
And God shall call me early on some 
morning in the Summer.” 
With the faith of these words, that 
we belong to God, may we press on be- 
loved, hoping, expecting and at last re- 
alizing the fulness of God’s promises in 
Christ Jesus! 
And to you, dear friends, who most 
deeply feel the sorrow of this hour— I 
do not know what better or what other 
message Of comfort I can bring to you 
than the assurance which it is yours to 
cherish, that all is well with the loved 
of your hearts who has been taken 
‘from you for a little while, and that 
you may, following her footsteps come 
to the joy of your Lord and the ever- 
lasting reunion of all who are Christ’s. 
Press on in the confidence that she 
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awaits, yonder, your coming, and in the 
fellowship of that Miaster whom she 
loved and served. 
And when our service is done here, 
may we all be granted the reward of 
those who are faithful unto death, even 
the crown of life that endureth forever- 
more, 
Isoetes of Southern California. 
ISOE.ES MELAXUPODA J.Gay). 
“Polygamous; trunk subglobose, 
deeply bilobed; lvs slender, stiff, erect, 
bright green, usually black at base (15- 
60 in number, 5-10 or rarely even 18 
i:ches long), sporangia mostly oblong 
(2-4 or even 5 lines long), spotted, with 
narrow velum, ligula triangular-subu- 
late; macrospores among the smallest 
in the genus, 0.25-0.40 mm in diam, with 
depressed tubercles often confluent. into 
worm-like wrinkles, or almost smooth; 
microspores also smaller than usual, 
0.023-0.028 or rarely 0.03 mm long, spin- 
ulose.’—H, St. Louis ac tr 4: 386-7 
(1882). Ill.; Iowa; Chico, Cal. 
Varicty FALL. Va bugeimann. 
“A larger plant, lf-bases pale, velum 
usually much broader, covering one- 
fourth or one-third of the sporangium; 
macrospores only 0.3-0.35 mm, thick.’’— 
E, St. Louis ac tr 4: 387 (1882). Hous- 
ton, Texas (E. Hall). Mesas, SD (Or, 
My 1903). 
Variety CALIFOuN.UCaA A.A eEatun. 
“Amphibious, monoecious. Trunk bi- 
lobed: 2 cm broad: bulb 4 cm in diame- 
ter. Leaves 20-100 10-30 cm.long, 3 mm 
broad, flat above, rourded on back, ta- 
per-pointed, white or fuscous at base, 
with many stomata and 4-6 cardinal 
and several accessory bract-bund:es. 
Velum 1-% indusiate sporangium with 
few or many spots. Gynospores 278-510 
u, average 460 u, smooth with a few 
fraginentary crests or vermiform with 
wrinkles: androspores 26-35 u_ lignt 
brown, densely  echinate. Difters 
from type and Var. pallida, principally 
in the larger, usually smooth gyno- 
spores and larger androspores. Olema, 
Cal. Mrs. Brandegee, Miss Eastwood. 
Also Powder Mill Canyon, Santa Cruz, 
Cala., C. H. Thompson. Type in Herb. 
A. A. Eaton. Cotypes in Herb. Mo. Bot. 
