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Polytechnic, Texas
May 8 1926

[2907 Vickery Blvd]

Mrs Will F. Lake
City,

My dear Mrs. Lake:-

I would not for the world have
you under the impression that we do not have
"loco-weed", or "crazy-weed" around Fort Worth. That
plant you had the other day, plant with wine-colored
flowers, borne on a scape, is loco-weed. Its old
name was Oxytropis Lambertii; the name given
it by Dr Small, is Aragallus Lambertii. It forms
here along the T. & P. RR and in old fields. It is
the same plant which grows from Arizona & Texas
North to British America. In New Mexico it grows on Mts,
& high plains nearly through out the State. Here, as I have
stated it grows along the RR. and in old fields. The
reason cattle here are not affected by its eating is
that it almost always grows in places, where cattle
do not roam. While in W. Texas last June, I hunted
everywhere for it; I could not find it. But it certainly
grows here, and I positively maintain it does.

The plant, about which you spoke to me over