Ifer dear Mr . Deane4— 



" You asked me for some notes on Euphorbia Cyparissias L. in fruit. 



Since you called attention, a few years ago, to the infrenquency ./ith 



which this plant is reported in fruit, I have exaained such colonies of 



it as I have chanced upon in Maine, STew Hampshire and Massachusetts. In 



"but one place have I found it in fruit, and that was in Greenfield, this 



state, on June 16, 1910. There I found two stations. 



The first station .vas on one of the main residential streets -when I 



was walking from ray hotel — the Welden — to spend a half day on the 



near-by elevation known locally as the "Poets Seat". The plants were very 



numerous over an area of approximately thirty meters square, extending 



from the grassy street-side up a delapitaded "bank-wall and over a part 



of a lot of grass land, in another part of which was a dwelling. The 



plants carried an abundance of well developed fruit in such an advanced 



stage of maturity that on drying there was a strong tendency for the 



fruit to "become detached. 

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On jay return by a different route, I found on the margia of the 

 c *fy 



settled portion of the town , two other patches close by each other, and 

 distant from the first station a half or three-quarters of a mile. Though 

 the area here was considerably less, the plants :er. nuii rous and bore 

 abundant, well developed fruit. 



This year, on May 11th, I revisited the first station. The plants 

 appeared to be as numerous as on my first visit , but were only just 

 coming into flower. The area covered by them was limited on two sides 

 by as many streets, while in another direction it was marked by a line 



