Berkeley, Jan. 8, 1988 
Ijear i,r. ^etcalf return f ron Los Angeles this morning I 
found the package of T ' extras” you sent for further determination. 
Unfortunately little can be done with the material because m 
most cases trie specimens,both original and sencond sending,are 
too fragmentary, young,or sterile. > In such cases neitney or 
specialists can do much; and it is bad policy to send sterile 
or incomplete material to the average specialist who^rightly feel 
that if tie volunteer his time and knowledge to make determination^ 
he should really have something worth putting into his herbarium 
2758 thisseems to be the same as the torn I am referring to 
Glochidion obovatun Hue 11.; ± may be wrongin tins 
(Incidentally have your assistants begin the generic name ac trie 
extreme right of the label; these you have sent are all written 
in the middle leaving no space for the specific name later) 
2716 too voung,even Hitchcock wouldn’t attempt_anything beyond v 
the genus,as I sent him a bit of the original sending 
/ /2S83 > b^niamed correctlv as far as I know; the ilpv/ers should. 
have been given special attention in drying; fruits 
/ needed anyway. . , v , 
/ 2563 Arundinaria japonica S. c: Z. according. to Hitchcock; but 
to be compared with A. brevipaniculata Hand.-Das. 
_ t onrl Ull vVi 1 1 flof HlirVlll 
ior me uninese iuiti; 1 . ^ • 
y 2515 not Glycine; probably a fQrm of Galactia tenuiflora W. 
/ 2508,perhaps form of Onenopodium album L. also 2481 
>/ 2505 not Viburnum, but Gallicarpa sp. ,perhaps referable to 
0. iaponica .... 
-2497 kimbristylis, too young in Oyperaceae generally one 
needs mature fruits not veyr young buds. 
-2483 Allium sp. One of the most critical of genera; there is 
no specialist and generally I cannot place them beyond 
the genus. . , .„ 
/2464 sterile ; might be either Kquisetun deblle or n. ramos- 
issimum I)esf. -^eave it as the former 
. " - bugs 
go 
JLJLUUl-i JL wuvu j. w vv-' 
">2463 Gilene with reasonable certainty,but only v ery. . joung _ 
*7 2454 fIs.needed, is Rhododendron but beyond this l cannot 
2448 see 2758*/ 
11 
^ 2445 probably a mixture. The second sending is Ligustrum sp 
<^2441 a mixture originally ? ■‘■he second senuing is 
Photinia sp.! . . ., , , 
_ 2429 Helaginella,sterile,indet. .One needs fully mature and 
most complete material in this difficult genus. I can 
only hope for assistance from .Berlin where I nave enough 
fertile material to divide and send ior comparison with 
. types. 
*/ 2427 same as 2716 1 „ . , ,, 
/ 2414 is Grataegus ! sterile one neeas fls and fruits. Group 
of 0. cuneatus . , 
> 2398 more apt to be Phaius; one needs flowers m tms critical 
family as there are no characters in the fruits. 
