NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY 

 TWELVE STATE STREET 

 WORCESTER, MASS. 



Mr. Walter Dearie 

 29 Brewster Street 

 Cambridge, Mass. 



Lear Mr. Leane: - 



Your letter of the 18th. , reached me in due season. I 

 wish to thank you very much for your very kind offer of a specimen 

 of Campanula punctata Lam. , hut we limit our activities to collect- 

 ing the flora of Worcester County, which now contains some 1500 

 named species and varieties. 



Luring the Great War, many of our "big Industrials maintained 

 War gardens for their help, and some of them used sheep manure and 

 wool waste, imported from various parts of the world. Following is 

 a partial list of some of the more unusual plants which we collect- 

 ed during and after the war : - 



Calotis cuneifolia R.Br. 



Australia 

 Cephalaria tatarica Schrad. 



Persia, Siheria, etc. 

 Chenopodium carinatum R.Br. 



Australia, Tasmania, sJw. United States, etc. 

 Chenopodium graveolens L. & R. 



New Mexico 

 Erigeron linifolius Willi. 



Bermuda, Cent. America, Ehillipines, etc. 



(This is a first specimen for the Gray Her "barium) 

 JTrankenia pulverulenta L. 



Europe; a rare ballast weed in America. 

 Heterospermum pinnatum Cav. 



New Mexico 

 Senecio multicapitulata Greenm. 



New Mexico 

 Tagetes minuta ? 



Temperate and tropical So. America 

 Xanthium amhrosioides Hook. & Arn. 



Argentina 



(Also a first specimen for The Gray Herb, in No. America 



Wed. Nov. 24 / 1926. 



