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16_12 Berkeley - Thelypodium simplex Greene. We have a cotype or at least a merotype sheet. My assistant Miss Ames was just a bit doubtful as to whether it could be Greene's plant because he doesn't mention in his diagnosis the united upper filaments. But said I: He couldn't have seen those in the dried spm. [specimen] without dissecting, and he never used a dissecting microscope. I never saw him with a dissecting microscope in my life. He used a hand-lens, nearly always of low power, and he had a real and abiding enthusiasm for fresh material. His lens was, for him, suffiecient for his purpose with the living plant He had a wonder- |
16_13 Apr. 25, 1917 ful gift for seeing telling characters in this way. W.L.J. - C. C. Parry cultivated all Californian botanists apparently. Lepidium palmeri Wats. was collected, I see by the label, by D. Cleveland and C.C. Parry, Mar. 28, 1882. - Heller, A.A. I think he is undoubtedly the most active of all North American collectors. He has probably collected more and more widely. Greene took an almost fiendish delight in lashing him. "Mr. Heller's statement xx is mere bombast" See Pitt. 4:18. Hellers spms. [specimens] are nearly always well selected and well prepared. The average very high. |
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