-2- 



that S g canad . is the only known plant where this occure regularly? 



The one Solidago which is in flower now has many distinguishing characteristics so 

 that you may be able to recognize it from my description. 1 1/2-3' high, stem usually 

 strong, bent, smooth, divergence 3/8, leaves with 3 nerves (i.e. the lateral ribs only 

 start to grow out in the first quarter, dentation long with a small lobe. XExkKxfeHH&x 

 Higher up, the teeth are closer together and some times are 3/^-1* f long. Inflorescence 

 Single branches". Branches themselves yellow , the branches are subsecund racemes, i.e. 



The flower leaves have again a very short common stem, which is sitting on the main 

 branch. The main branches xxk at their lower parts are without flov/er taste heads. 

 The flowers are of a very vivid yellow colour; on ä flov/erless branch, the leaf 

 distance was 2/5. 



1) To which species does the Dodecatheon growing here belong? 2)What is the name 

 of the V high, smooth Trasecantia covered with white aromatic leaves and stems, with 

 the paler flov/ers? jYFhe lower, somewhat hairy, with ckrker leaves and ciarker flowers 

 which only grows to a height of 1 1/2'? ^+)l know here 2 Sisirynchium, theone is white, 

 the other with bluw flowers. Are these different species? 5)The geranium with flowers 

 an inch large? 6)The geranium with the small, many numbered flowers and long beak, 

 which grows up to 1/2-1* , and is considered to be a weed? 7) Is the Diclytra growing 

 here D. cucullata? 8) I once asked you for the name of the 1 1/2 1 high, upstanding 

 red lily which grows so frequently on the |3äxx|jsc prairies. You wrote ?f probably 

 philad. M . Already before I asked you I checked in Beck and found the description 

 °^ £• Pfiilad « very similar, only he says "leaves in whorls", but usually there is 

 only one whorl at the stem, namely underneath the flower; the other leaves vary. 

 9) I know here 3 species of Phlox :<x) it is high, flowers large, purple. ß) same height, 

 flowers smaller, rose-red, lobe edges turned down, with 10 dark pink little stripes 

 around the tksxa throat. In both the calyx is very long, narrow,x?±HÄSti: prismatic. 

 y) On the prairies, 2-3* high, flowers amiler, very red, lobes overlap so that the 

 flower assumes a wheel shape, calyx short, subcam pamilate, edges of the calyx parts 

 scariose. I don f t know the name of any of these three species. 10) Is the Crotonopsis 

 growing here along the roads harmless? The leaves are very aromatic and onee we tried 

 to make tea from them. 11) Is the white wild anemone which ms so often found with ferns, 

 a species of C^nv.? 12) Does cicuta maculata always have a spotty stem? The larfee high 

 umbeliferaea JWhite flowers, haart-shaped petals and thwarted, globular flat fruits which 



6 7 8 9 10 

 Copyright reserved 



