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report that their cultures came from seeds received unnamed from 

 Texas. 



Now we have no evidence to dispute the statement that these 

 seeds came from Texas and we certainly have reason to feel hope- 



Fig. 1. Sheet in the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University. An Oenothera 

 grown by Dr. Asa Gray at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1862, and probably de- 

 rived directly or indirectly from the cultures of Carter and Company of London, 

 which were distributed under the name of 0. Lamarckiana. 



ful that if these plants grew in Texas further back than 1860 they 

 will still be present in the southwest. It is of course possible that 

 the seedsmen made some mistake and that their seeds came not 



