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25_22 Berkeley sometimes but rarely the partition walls are actually joined in axis, or at least in lower part of ovary. The petals in our plants here are almost always 6 or 7. Sepals 5, sometimes 6. I now find a considerable number more with partitions united at base but not above. Climate--Rained heavily at end of May, showery and threatening for a week. The spring has been very late _ cold. First days of June _very_ hot. --June 2, '12 --Bridges, Thos. Discovered Primula suffrutescens [this appears erased] acc. Gray, Syn. Fl. [Synoptical Flora of North America] vol. 2, p. Early part of vol. 2. Place lost. |
25_23 May 1912. --Mrs. Brandegee is very ill and is not expected to recover. Diabetes. She is about 65 years old. Her life has been a peppery one. Undoubtedly with a genuine interest in botany and with real ability, she has yet used her botany to gratify personal hatreds. It has been used as a means of attacking someone whom she chose to dislike. And it was necessary for her to have some one to attack. It was her life to "follow up" the work some one was publishing and find in it as many mistakes as possible. It is needless to say that any one can find plenty of occupation at such a task. --May 31, 1912. |
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