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May 18, 1904
r. Charles F. Lummis,
207 New High St.,
Los Angeles, Cal.

y dear Mr. lummis:-

In reading the May number of "Out West" I noted with pleasure an article on Navajo blankets by Spiegelberg. I saw this article in manuscript when I was in Spiegelberg's store last summer, and I think made one or two suggestions concerning certain names used in same, one especially appealed to me, and as I remember it, I either changed the name or else spelled the specific name of the mountain mahogany.

In the articles on page 448, mountain mahogany is given Corcocarpus ledifolius, whereas, Dr. Washington Matthews and self, have always used Cercocarpus parvifolius.

In looking up this tree in Charles Sprague's Silva of North America 1902, I find that mountain mahogany is given as Cercocarpus breviflorus. He gives parvifolius as a variety, and states that it grows in forests of pine and oak on dry ridges of mountains, [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] 
in Southern Arizona and New Mexico, and usually at an elevation of over 5000 feet. He does not mention ledifolius at all. 

The Century Dictionary gives both ledifolius and parvifolius.

The International Encyclopedia says: In the Western United States Corcocarpus ledifolius is called mountain mahogany, and

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