J.U.Uoyd. N./shley Lloyd. G G Lioyd, 



4 --^>^> (Cincinnati, 0. 



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rate of progress it ia making T hardly think my 

 life will be spared long enough to finish itm 



During the pott gimner I took a trip we%t to 

 the coast and back over the Northern pacific, stop- 

 ping at the yelloiimtone p^rkn I made no ooilectioTs 

 idhalfeter although meeting with thousands of new 

 plants* I think the plains around Denver tt the 

 foot of the Rodkieg one of the finest botanical 

 grounds I haw 'ver s&&n* The fields seem to he 

 019 mass of bloom and the species very nimerous* 

 I of course, took considerable pleasure in noticing 

 the plants wilh v^ioh I met and referring them in 

 my mind to th ir genera, although having no botan- 

 ical mrk with me I could not determine their spe- 



