486

June 16 1886

Prof. C. E. Bessey
Lincoln Neb.

Sir,

Won't you please tell
me whether or not the old
belief that the [rowan?] influences
vegetation is an entire
fallacy? May it not have
some effect on the currents
of protoplasm?

I am making a collection
of the flowering plants of this
newly organized county and
have found several which are
not described either in Gray's
Manual or Coulter's Rocky
Mountain Botany.

Could I sell such a