Urbana,January 8,192-5 
Osar Mr.Deaaai— 
We were veey glad to hear f ro a yoa at Christinas time and get the pretty 
oard.We had been ill,else yoa would have seen me in Cambridge a little after 
Christmas,but we are all well now,or very nearly so,and I haye used the vaca¬ 
tion here to get much of the introduction for the Flora of Coos County written. 
I rather dreaded the task but have enjoyed it surprisingly,though I haven’t 
yet finished it or got the parts done inlw the shape I want.In the course of 
getting the catalogue part up to dabs with new revisions,etc.,I have come upon 
a number of questions which I will make bold to enumerate herewith. 
$<£/- <^( Populus deltoid es.In a letter of yours of 9 ^ov.,1919 you describe this 
as found in the Leighton meadow in. Shelburne, etc., giving necessary data, fhe 
species is new to the county and apparently out of range,to judge by the Manual 
Is it perfectly sure that it is that species? If so,is there a chance that it 
is introduced? Before finally including it I should be glad to have light upon 
this.Wg have a good deal of P,tacamahaooa and its van.lanceolata,of course,but 
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this would be an important addition, especially if native. 
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JL 9.iola blanda .We have had some correspondence about this^I^^pp^^s^io^^^jT 
else in the county,but there seems no reason why it should not be in Shelburne. 
I should just like to, >e ^ure th^t you 
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feel that your J919 spepimejis are 
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yacoinium can ad snae- j vac, ohiooocoum is dated in 8 hod. % from Shelburne. I 
have it from Corham.but have noted no other specimen from the county.Have you 
it? 
Could .you 1st me know how your C 9 re& iaxiflora group turn out by ^legend's 
revision in Shod. 24, 294-196? I have anoeps , blanda , leptoaervia , and ermoataejtya 
from the county,but I should like to know about yours. 
y\ Also about your Bjjens cernua and vara/ Shod. 24,206-7). 
^ . Also jour Saleoosis l etrahit and var. bifida . 
rt^ In a latter of yours which I hays on file and whi<tk I have been examining 
/ you mention from Shelburne Oenothera Lamarekiana Cauthority?).Ibe species is,I 
suppose,an escape,not being in the Manual.A® I right? 
Have you any of Mackenzie's Qarsx M 3gg itt-Feraaidii .and if so,what did you 
have it labelled formerly when I prob ably noted it?-^ Cl _ a. 
Iha following ooints I hardly venture to ask and should 
had not showed so much interest in the Flora.If you cannot easily do them just 
say so,ani I shall be perfectly satisfied.Lgt me explain.Every year I have 
sent my plants down to the Herbarium at the end of the summer,those which I had 
worked up to my satisfaction to be out in the Slab herb.,the others to be put 
into my compartment in I« 8.^2,Several times M.L.F.has been so kind as to run 
over the things before putting them in these two places,and has sent me some 
notes in regard to them,which I still have.Now I have not been in the habit of 
