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16_6 Berkeley - Taraxcum deus-leonis. Prof. L. J. Richardson says "I am told on very good authority but it needs verification that Dandelion seed was brought to California by A. K. P. Harmon in to reproduce at his Oakland home the conditions of his New England boyhood." [Perhaps this story could be checked by appealing to Colonel Edwards who was a brother-in-law of Harmon. - Aug. 8, 1914] |
16_7 1914 - Lewisia pygmaea Wats. Bolander's 6390 is this species acc. to Bot. Cal. [University of California publications in botany ?] Note the position of the bracts and compare with specimens of Davy, Bierstadt Peak, no. 3191. Also note dif. in shape of roots. As between pygmaea and nevadensis the denticulate or entire character of the sepals does not seem to hold. - 1914. - The Mother of the Forest, the tree of the Calaveras Grove of which the bark was skinned for exhibition in London and the tree left standing, lived seven years after this outrage. Some 5 years after the peeling, it put out green shoots as signals of distress and |
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