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CHICAGO, ILL. 



May 24,1927 



Walter Deane 



29 Brewster Street 



Oaoi'brid^fMasg • 



Dear Mr -"^eane:- 



\C I have today mailed to you two small packages, the larger 

 containing two plants of the violet of inftiich I wrote you some months ago. 



The other, some mounted violet leaves taken frcan plants growing in my yard 



I spent the last week in April with a "botany party from Chicago, au^ented 

 "by two young women frwn Cincinatti,one of who was assistant professor of 

 of "botany at the University of Cti.We had a very enjoyahle trip, full of 

 thrills for those who had never visited the Southern Appalachians hefore, 



The M^H^ violet# plants were collected for me at Mount Carroll in 

 the unglaciated section of northwestern Illinois. The colony grows under pine 

 trees on "Pine Eidge" in Smith's Park at Mt Carroll, 



One of the sag^tate leaves is quite fleshy hoth leaf and stem, This 

 vioiit was fairly common in the fountains along with rot-andifolia,conspersa, 

 rostratayrafinesque^hlanda, canadensis, and many others. 



I think one of the greatest thrills I experienced was the finding 

 of trillium luteuin,a sessile flowered variety with clear yellow petals. 



We found six trilliums, three white, two red, and the yellow one which was 

 the only on© with sessile flowers, 



I hope the plants reached you in good enough condition so that you 

 may classify them. 



