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D. D. REED, 
BusrNESs Manager. 
October 51, 1900. 
My Dear Mr. Collins : 
It is now several years since I promised to send you 
in exchange for the specimens of Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi from the Halsey 
Farm you kindly sent me, some specimens of the same species from Presque 
Isle for comparison. I did not get about procuring fresh ones until this 
summer, and these I send you in the same mail with this. Yofi will pro¬ 
bably find no difference whatever between yours and mine, and doubtless 
I should not have been misled, though I had nothing but leaves and the 
general appearance of the plant as it grew upon the summit of that prom¬ 
ontory upon which to establish its species. In habit it appeared so very 
different from what it does here ; it was so green ; its leaves were 
borne so much nearer the horizontal, and it clung so much more closely to 
the surface, that, whilh I could make nothing else out of it I was not 
satisfied. Here the plant is very extensively trailing, some branches 
being found all of twenty feet in length and the branchlets fctand up, ir¬ 
regularly knee-deep. There are areas acres in extent covered almost ex¬ 
clusively with the bear-berry, and as it grows its aspect is quite dif¬ 
ferent from that little patch at Halsey's. 
You may be interested, however, in the specimens I send. 
- have had a fairly orofitable season of collecting here, most of my 
work being devoted to the genus Carex, which I had previously rather ne¬ 
glected, and the willows, which, even now, I am not altogether satisfied 
with. The genus Salix is so notoriously adulterous that it isno easy 
task to straighten it out. I intend to continue the work on the willows 
nexx year, and, along with the sedges look a little more sharply after 
the potamogetons. 
1 trust you are well and prosperous. Give my regards to Prof Bumpus 
and to Mr. Leland and Mr. Bennett, if you chance to meet them. 
Yours very truly, 
a tmjJjUt —- 
