51 Elm St, Woburn, Mass. Sept. 13, 1904 



Dr. G.G.Kennedy: 



Dear Sir:- 



I am much interested in your list of plants 



and ferns found at Willoughby, andfor that reason I have not been in any 

 haste to send for the specimen of Botrychium lunaria , in your possession 

 and found by me in August. As I suppose you would like very much to make 

 your herbarium of the Willoughby Flora as complete as possible, I am wil- 

 ling that the fern should remain with you for the present at least. You 

 are doubtless familiar with the circumstances of my finding it through 

 the letter which Miss Lorenz wrote you about it and also by what I wrote 

 to Mr. Rich. I write this especially to call your attention to another 

 thing I found at Willoughby, on theWest side of the Lake. 

 You will recall the "Beaver Meadow" that fine sphagnum swamp where so 

 many orchids and heaths are found, wbout half a mile from the lake. 

 In going out of that swamp over toward the Barton roadl passed through 

 a pasture and close beside a large rock in damp ground I found what I 

 took at the time to be Scrophula Marilandica, L.I took a specimen to 

 Mr. Rich for examination, and after a week or more he has sent me the 

 inclosed card, in which I see he agrees with me in its identification; 

 for I understand that S. nodosa, var. Marilandica of Gray's Manual is the 

 same as S. Marilandica, L.as given in Britain's Manual. I have not seen 

 the leporella , but I hardly think from the description that it can be 

 that. I have a specimen which I can let you have, if you wish. It should 

 undoubtedly be added to your list, as you seem to have included the flora 

 of "Beaver Meadow", for it grows only a few minutes walk from that inter- 

 esting swamp. An intelligent farmer there told me the place was not over 

 3/4 of a mile from the lake .Will you be in to visit the exhibition at 

 Horticultural Hall next week? If so I might meet you and give you the 



specimen and talk with you about this and Actaea etc. 



Sincerely yours , ' 



