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MORNING DISPATCH, 
EVENING NEWS, 
WEEKLY GAZETTE, 
Sn«,Ya.,. November 21, ibG?. ... 
My Dear Mr. Collins ; 
1 have delayed, writing you because 1 had not succeeded in 
seeing your uncle, Mr. Getchell, for I considered 1 had a sort of message to 
him. 1 went out to his office once or twice, but had the misfortune to miss 
him some way. Two days ago, however, 1 met him on the street, and then 
learned that not longer ago than last September he paid you a visit. This, 
then, releases me. So I take my pen in hand, as it were, to make inquiry. 
Vou will remember I spore about a plant that grows at the top of a rocky 
cliff at the Halsey farm, just below Silver Spring. I could not make it out 
to my satisfaction. I collected it with immature fruit, and was satisfied 
that it belonged with the heath family. But I could not reconcile it with 
the only species of Arctostaphylus that the manual gives, and there was no¬ 
thing else that at all fitted it. Did you succeed in finding it in flower ? 
if you did 1 would be very much obliged if you would kindly tell me what you 
made out about it, and, if you please, would like to have a specimen. 
So far as the leaves and the general aspect of the plant is concerned it 
differs widely from the only species 1 know. That which grows here cuva- 
ursi) I also found gr 
up the Providence kiv 
Did you ever find, 
plants adventive to t 
■owing on one of the rocky islets some distance farther 
er, somewhere near the Sguantuiin Club, I think. 
on the Cove lands, glycrrhiza ? I saw a list of 
hat spot printed in one of Prof. Bailey’s contributions 
to the Journal, once, 
but I do not recollect that this plant was in the list. 
It ought io be, for I 
dence . 
found it growing there the last summer I was in Provi- 
Please let me hear 
from you soon. If you chance to see our frierid, Mr. 
Ireland, convey to him 
. my best wishes. 
Very truly yours , ^ * , 
