
          to you a part of a larger collection
of Californian plants which
I have here, and which I promised
myself the pleasure of looking over
with you when you made your
then contemplated visit.

[You?] do not seem to have noticed
the differences which exist between
the Spraguea umbellata from Crater Pass
Cascade Mts. [Mountains] and the specimen found
at lower altitudes. I did not
suppose it distinct, but the plant
as it occurs at McCombers is of
a nearly uniform greenish yellow,
the flower stems upright, and the
leaves acute, so on the tributaries
of the Columbia. At Crater Lake
the plant is spread  mat-like on
the ground, no part rising one
inch above the surface, the
floral envelopes & flower stems & petioles
purplish red, the leaves truncated &
sometimes emarginate.
        