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14_58 Kew Herbarium does all the botanical work published under his name himself. O, my no. He hires other people to work for him. Pays them [lbs] 20 a year or some such matter. he is the preciding genius, you know. He directs the work and seizes upon what is available for his ideas. - Dr. Hervey is having a time trying to segregate some of Small's Sargenti etc trees. Nyssa species from the Southern States for instance. He has leaves only from trees growing in a garden here; they do not fruit here; but those authors do not help him with distinguishing leaf marks. He thinks as do I that tree species should be distinguishable |
14_59 Dec. 3, 1905. (when fully worked out) by leaf characters. While vegetative characters are variable still they ought to be described. Stipules afford good characters; so do winter buds; so does character of pubescence, not quantity however. Henry says the American plane (occidentalis) will not grow in England and scarcely in France. Wood does not harden up. Grows to be 7 or 8 ft. high and then decays. Winter too mild. It has a tendency to grow right on and is often nipped by frost in consequence of the winter not being severe enough to force it into winter quarters. Acerifolia is a queer form of the European plane with the leaves of the American |
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