Correspondence from Albert Ruth to Mary Daggett Lake: May 8, 1926

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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

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the telephone, is, no doubt, Psoralea cuspidata, or Large-Bracted Scurfy Pea, The leaflets are commonly 5, and digitate. The flowers are bluish.

Very sincerely yours, A Ruth.

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Polytechnic Texas Apr 25 1927

Dear Mrs Lake:-

These are a few of the medicinal plants found in Tarrant Co. :-

Artemisia Mexicana - Mexican Wormwood. Salvia Farinacea - Mealy-leaved Sage Hedeoma drummondii - Drummondi Pennyroyal. Marrusieua [illegible] Vulgar - Hoarhound Datura stramonium - Thorn-apple or Jamestown weed. Chenopodium anthelminticum - wormseed. Ulmus Lulva - Slippery Elm. Riccinus Communis - Castor (Bean) Oil Plant. Verbena officinales - Herb-of-the-Cross Verbascum thapsus - Great Mullen Velvet or Mullen Dock Veronica perefrina Purslane speedwell Valerianella amarella - Bitter Cone Salad. Iva ciliata- Rough Marsh Elder Iva angustfolia Namax - leaved Marsh Elder made from both flowers and leaves elder - tea from it - to the people of who are worth Veronic thaspus - genus identified -Herb-ofWealth Rieneis cornward - leaved speedwell Verhea officials - Novem. of the Cross Verbacum, thapese geal mulaaba verreleber

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Mex. wormwood- drink called absinthe made from species of Artemisia - medicine -

blue sage - tea made from it salvia farinacea

Pennyroyal - small labiale flowers Hedeoma drummondii - belongs to mint family

daturus stramonium - narcotic herb - jimpson weed - medicinal herb Hindoo name- "dhalura".

What we call tobacco weed - Filago pro lifera - quite common here on lawns & in fields

Worm [?} seed - Mex tea - In waste places - wide range - [?]. N. Y. Ontario to Florida & Mex. Naturalized from Europe

Slippery Elm - very rare in woods - species of elm - grows very tall-

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Achillea millefolium - Yarrow or Milfoil (tea) senecio balsamitae - Balsam Groundsel- (tea) very bitter -

If I had time, I could I am sure, make out a much larger list. And, if my eyes were all right. They are, at present, in such a condition I can scarcely see to read or write

Sincerely Yours, A Ruth,

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