Mr. Writer Dea.ne, 
Cambridge, Maes. 
ftarmonsburg, ‘fta., gey, 1C, 1^§h 
I send you today specimen of As arum reflexum and of 
A. Canadense, as nearly as I can determine. In describing the new spe¬ 
cies (Torrey Club Bulletin, Vol. 24, No. 11) Mr. Bicknell states that 
in the one species the interior of calyx tube is purple nearly to base, 
in the other it is white within. I do not see this distinction ih 
the specimens I found. But the termination of calyx lobes shows the 
same distinction described and oictured. The specimen ns that I take 
"or / . Canadense are r 11 lighter color, have more green 'than the oth- 
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er. I only found one clump of A. Canadense, but the- Other was plentiful 
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I found one root which seems to me a cross between the two, having 
mi of A. C? . f. A, ref 
ers. Qfi LI 
• . distinct species as described' in Bulletin)? also w] • er the 
third specimen is a hybrid? 
- I also enclose a yellow violet that I am a little uncertain about 
bit think it is V. scabriuscula. 1 &l c o suspect that the variegated 
io iage is caused by some Insect or ungus. My mother found three roots 
wit> variegated leaves, 
on one of which I found something very 
like 
aphis. I have just been reading -Bradford T.rrey's reference to thi 
e variety V. scabriuscula in April' Atlantic Monthly, p ^Gl. 
T do not '.enow V. hastate unless it is one that I have found on several 
occasions in the summer after it had done blooming. I was then attract¬ 
ed to it by silvery markings on the leaves, and I have wondered if they 
were common to the species, a freak, or the reiult of disease. The 
olants looked robust. 
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