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Contributed by New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library.
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Transcription
"He said above Venn--
This is in Washington.
"Most abundant
Yellow river valley;"
"Most abundant
in the old rice plantings,
abandoned at the
time of the Civil War."
"Some as single trunk
but most do not;
they come from the roots"