United States Department of Agriculture,
FORESTY DIVISION.
Washington, D. C., November 3, 1890.
Prof.C.E.Bessey,
Lincoln, Nebraska
Dear Sir:
Thanks for you willingness to aid in the establishment of
local nomenclature, also for the copy of Nebraska flora. I was
glad to receive this at the time, when you expressed your hope that
out scientific nomenclature would be up to the times; for I find
at least two slips in Mr. Webber's list, Quercus stellata ought to
be minorl Acer dasycarpum ought to be saccharinum; Ostrya Virgini-
ana should be (Mill), Wildm not "(Mill),B.S.P". I thought you would
like to have these misses pointed out.
In my check-list I propose to compromise by giving the new
and Gray's nomenclature as equivalent, so that all sides shall be
satisfied. The new nomanclature will occupy first place, the old
underneath in different type.
I wonder every time when the treelessness of the plains is
disscussed, that none of our philosphers is wise enough to combine
the various single causes adduced, neither of which is sufficient
in itself to explain to matter. To me there is no enigma in this
phenomenen. The existence of a forest cover at one time, which I
