Dorchester jjtass. Oct.1;1899. 
Dear Mr. Collins: - 
I left you so abruptly that I think, 
now that I have got home again,! ought to- apologize a yij-t-e 
for my hasty exit & give you a little account of my wanderings 
since X left yon. I found my ’’Rhode Island” column so we 1 
filled in,from J-our & irof • Bailey ’ s Herbaria & Xj.oiu my 
tiaJ examination of the College one,that I thought X had bet- 
terdevote the rest of my limited time to Conn. I first tried 
rlaw Haven,but found everyone out of town, including Dr, & vans 
whom I know,&I could not even get at the Herbarium. Icou .d 
think of nothing else to do except to go on tq. Bridgeport, 
tho’I had not heard from Dr.Eames in answer to my -ether., 
I reached B. about 4 1.M.& found my way to Dr.fames’house. 
X found he had not received my letter at ail,I Know not why! 
He greetea me cordially,& I spent that & the following even¬ 
ing on the Leguminosae in his Herb.getting a very good rep¬ 
resentation of the Conn.plants. On Wednesday we took our 
lunch & spent the day in the fie d & I fi led my box with 
much that was desirable or new to me. I may mention Cimicif- 
uga,Triosteum angustifolium,Angelica hirsute & So, iaago rig* 
iaa among others. A puzz © in his Herb.is an Amphicarpaea, 
which seems to be A.Pitcheri & which is like specimens col¬ 
lected here,which Dr.Robinson has seen & I believe cals 
Pitcheri! X shall learn more about it & hope to get fruit¬ 
ing specimens from Eames. 
Thursday X took the noon train to H.l»,with my wife £ 
daughter &we spent a week in the country on Long Is, ana, 
where,of course,! did a lot more collecting,getting such 
things as Rotala,ScizpuS debit is, Ipomaea coccinea & Ec ipta 
a ba(beyond its aefined range,but evident y indigenous) A 
