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of southern California.
My field is physics."-E.H.Kennard; cf. Jepson Corr. for year 1919.

The replacement of the name Prunus fremontii by the name Prunus eriogyna by Mason (Jour. Agr. Research 1:167) is one of the curiosities of botanical literature.
-Johnston, J.M.
He bases decision as to a species on the amount of material in the pocket as compared with other material in the same pocket (mixed).
This relates to a Nama or some related genus in Calif. See his papers about 1923.
-F.B. 1:186.
-"Any one can recognize most of our plants from a distance of twenty feet or more. ___It is not necessary to use the obscure structural features and the numerous technical terms which are employed in other books."-H.A. Gleason, in circular re. "Plants of the Vicinity of New York," a flora by himself. 1935.
cf. also his suberservience to Gray's Manual, p. ii. of Fl. and his statement that no improvements have been made to his (Gleasons) Fl. lest it tend to confusion with Gray's Man. (1908)!!!
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Non-credit to Jepson's publications.
Cont. [continued] from p. 200.
I know positively that the agricultural men in our College of Agriculture use my books a great deal.
Though giving credit to other floras they do not to mine.
They are simply following the lead of the Dept. of Botany men.
For example A.W. Sampson has gotten out a bulletin on "St. Johnswort on Range Lands in California"-Bull. 503, 1930,-U.C. Agr. Exp. Sta.
Indubitably he used my Manual-but he cites it not,-he cites Piper's Flora of Washington, etc.
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