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Eliza B. Blackford's Original Watercolor Paintings of Flowers From the Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Eliza Beulah Blackford was born Eliza Larsh in Eaton, Ohio. Little is known about her early years, even her birth date is a matter of some confusion. It appears as 1847, 1849, and even 1855 depending on the source although it was most likely 1849.(1) Blackford was educated in the Ohio public school system and held an "inborn love of all nature from childhood" (2). Her interest in the natural world led her to spend much time outdoors, collecting and painting the plants she found there. Blackford was "of Quaker stock" (3) and married a schoolmate who was called to the ministry. They moved to the Boston area sometime in the early 1890s and she enrolled in The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1895. This school, then less than twenty years old, was one of the most distinguished art schools in the United States. Here she studied drawing and painting in what she described as a "busy five year course." (4) Upon graduation she had pupils of her own and briefly served as a substitute teacher at the school. (5) In September 1901 Blackford joined the staff of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston as Assistant in the Ticket Office. It is interesting that, after 1918, the Museum stopped charging admission but her title remained the same. Her exact duties are unclear although orienting visitors was probably involved and she sometimes sold postcards and photographs to visitors. (6 & 7) According to a 1924-1925 staff list she was still employed and her salary was $15 per week (about $190 in adjusted dollars), more than that of the MFA secretaries and equal to the porters. (8) She retired from the Museum after twenty-five years of service. Blackford was one of the first women to join the Boston Mycological Club in 1895 and was very interested in studying fungi, dedicating most of her free time to collecting and painting fungi. Some of the places where she collected fungi in Massachusetts were in the Back Bay, Middlesex Fells, Natick, Cohasset, Ellis and the Fenway- places where many of the vascular plants she used as subjects for her watercolors were also found. More information about Blackford's fungi collection can be found here. In 1933 William "Cap" Weston (1890-1978) was a member of a committee administering the Farlow. He contacted Blackford in regard to the disposition of her artwork. He writes, "It would indeed be a very valuable acquisition if we could secure this collection of your illustrations...Is there any possibility that you might give this collection to the Farlow Herbarium? I assure you it would receive the most excellent care and would comprise a valuable collection that would be kept available for the use of interested workers for all time". 9) Blackford was interested and quickly responded. She asked however that the Farlow also accept her correspondence, spore prints, specimens, "these things have lived together so long it seems to me they ought not be separated". (10) Weston agreed and after her death on January 25, 1935 her collection came to Harvard. Amongst the 605 watercolors of fungi, included in her gift were these paintings of 217 vascular plants. They date from 1880 to 1933, but the majority were painted from 1915-1926. These plants were located mostly in Massachusetts, but also in New Hampshire and Ohio. There is no indication of whether or not Blackford actually collected these specimens or if she just painted them. The paintings vary in size and technique, and many lack information about the name, location and/or date of the plant. Eliza B. Blackford died on January 25, 1935 at the age of 87. A small service was held for her Boston friends and then and after a service in Boston was buried in the Mound Hill Cemetery, Eaton, Ohio on January 31, 1935 in section 7, lot 518. (1) A Union City Newspaper obituary lists her birthdate as 1847, The Boston Globe obituary lists it as 1855, and other articles list it as 1849. Her family bible also lists it as 1849. (2) draft of a letter from E.B.B. to H. Fitzpatrick, 10 Nov 1934 (Blackford Papers) (3 & 4) Obit The Boston Globe (5) Letter from Sarah Pierce (Farlow Library B B628p) (6) Archives of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (7) Catchall. Boston Herald 1931 (Blackford Papers) (8) Archives of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (9) letter from W.H. Weston to E.B.B. 13 March 1933 (Blackford Papers) (10) letter from E.B.B. to W.H. Weston, 31 March 1933 (Blackford Papers)
Folder 1: Araceae Arisaema triphyllum Name:Arisaema triphyllum(Jack-in-the-Pulpit) Name: Calla palustris L. Date: May 30th, 1921 Location: Natick Notes: Initialed by Blackford Name: Arisaema triphyllum ( Indian Turnip, Jack-in-the-Pulpit) Date: Oct. 1915 Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Peltandra virginica Knuth. (Arrow arum) Date: June 1915 Location: Saxonville, Mass Notes: Signed by Blackford Folder 2: Onagraceae (Evening Primrose Family) Epilobium angustifolium Name: Evening Primrose ? Date: July 1917 Location: Oak Island Name: Epilobium angustifolium (Fireweed, Great Willow-herb) Date: Aug 11, 1917 Location: Revere Marshes Name: Epilobium coloratum Date: July 3rd 1915 Location: Oak Island Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Epilobium hirsutum (Hairy Willowherb) Date: July 18, 1915 Location: Revere Beach Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Oenothera biennis (Common Evening Primrose) Date: Aug. 1915 Location: Eaton Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Oenothera perennis (Sundrops) Date: Aug 24, 1915 Location: Pequawket, NH. Notes: Signed by Blackford Folder 3: Scrophulariaceae (Figwort Family) Veronica scutellaria Name: Purple Gerardia Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Pedicularis canadensis (Wood Betony) Date: May 8th, 1916 Location: Echo Bridge Name: Chelone glabra (Turtle Head) Date: Sept 14, 1926 Location: Norumbega Name: Gerardia pedicularia (Fern-leaved false foxglove) Location: Stony Brook Res. Notes: Signed by Blackford. Sketch. Name: Penstemon (Beard-Tongue) Date: June 1921 Location: Wachusett: Miss Doolittle Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Veronica scutellaria (Marsh Speedwell) Notes: Also noted as V. angallis L. (Water Speedwell) Folder 4: Asterceae/Compositae (Aster, Daisy, Sunflower family) Cirsium lanceolatum Name: Eutrochium purpureum Date: August 1926 Location: Middlesex Fells Name: Eutrochium (Joe Pye) Date: Aug. 1927 Location: Fells Name: Liatris (Tall Blazing Star, Button Snake Root) Date: August Location: Children's Show Notes: 'Matthews page 470' Name: New England Aster Date: 1927 Name: Petasites hybridus (Butter-bur) Date: March 27, 1921 Location: Butterfly Dock. Fenway. Notes: Signed by Blackford. There is a small ink sketch on the back of the plate. Name: Senecio aureus (Golden Ragwort) Date: June 13, 1915 Location: Blue Hill Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Matricaria inodora L. (Wild Chamomile) Date: August 17, 1926 Location: South Boston Flats Notes: Naturalized from Europe Name: Sonchus asper L. (Sow Thistle, Spring-leaved Sow) Date: August 10, 1926 Location: South Boston Flats Notes: Naturalized from Europe Name: Cirsium lanceolatum (Common Thistle) Location: Eaton, Ohio Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Hieracium venosum (Rattlesnake weed) Notes: Signed by Blackford Folder 5: Asteraceae/Compositae (Aster, Daisy, Sunflower Family) Anthemis cotula Name: Aster Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Centaurea nigra? L. (Spanish Buttons, Knapweed, Star Thistle) Date: Summer 1927 Location: Middlesex Fells Name: Anthemis cotula L. (Chamomile, Mayweed) Location: Eaton, Ohio Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Cichorium intybus (Chicory) Date: July 24, 1915 Location: Back Bay, Boston Mass. Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Rudbeckia triloba? (Cone Flower) Notes: Signed by Blackford. Sketch. Name: Erigeron (Robin's Plantain) Date: May 31, 1915 Location: Nobscot Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Centaurea jacea? Date: November 6, 1915 Location: Ipswich Notes: Blackford noted:'Named from the Centaur, Chiron, famous for his skill in healing. -Gray' Name: Veronica? (Ironweed) Name: Golden-rod Name: Bidens laevis? Name: Hawkweed? Notes: Stem hollow. Milky. Very bitter. Name: Rudbeckia hirta (Cone-flower, Blackeyed Susan) Date: June-Aug. Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Unknown. Date: Unknown. Location: Unknown Notes: Looks like a Rudbeckia hirta. Folder 6: Ericaceae (Heath Family) Andromeda polifolia Name: Monotropa hypopitys (False beechdrops, Pine-sap) Date: June-Sept. Notes: Signed by Blackford 'Matthews says color tawny, reddish.' Name: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (Bearberry) Date: May 2, 1931 Location: Winchester, Mass. Notes: Initialed by Blackford Name: Chimaphila umbellata (Prince's Pine, Pipsissewa) Date: Dec. 19, 1915 Location: Ellis, Mass. Name: Monotropa uniflora (Indian Pipe, Corpse Plant) Date: July 1926 Name: Rhododendron Notes: Copy? Name: Rhodora Name: Cranberry Name: Ledum latifolium? L. (Labrador Tea) Date: Aug 24, 1915 Location: Pequawket, N.H. Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Andromeda polifolia L. Date: 1919 Location: Lost Pond Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Chimaphila maculata Pursh. (Spotted Wintergreen) Date: Nov. 1915 Name: Gaultheria procumbens (Wintergreen, Checkerberry) Date: Nov. 14th, 1915 Location: Ellis, Mass. Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Kalmia latifolia L. (American Laurel, Calico-bush, Mountain Laurel, Spoon-wood) Date: June 1915 Name: Epigaea repens (Trailing Arbutus, Ground Laurel) Date: April-May Notes: Signed by Blackford Folder 7: Miscellaneous Ericales- Primulaceae (Primrose Family), Lythraceae, Cletharceae, and Sarraceulaceae (Pitcher Plant Family) Sarracenia purpurea Name: Lythraceae (Loosestrife Family) Lythrum salicaria (Purple or Spiked Loose-strife) Date: August 25, 1917 Location: Norumbega Name: Primulaceae (Primrose Family) Lysimachia thyrsiflora L. (Tuffed Loosestrife) Location: Chestnut Hill, Mass. Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Primulaceae (Primrose Family) Steironema ciliatum (Fringed Loosestrife) Date: Aug. 5, 1915 Location: Eaton Notes: Signed by Blackford Additional sketch located on the back of the plate. Name: Lythraceae (Loosestrife Family) Decodon verticillatus (Swamp Loosestrife) Date: Aug 23, 1917 Location: Norumbega, Mass. Name: Sarraceulaceae (Pitcher Plant Family) Sarracenia purpurea (Pitcher Plant) Date: November 1915 Location: Natick Mass. Notes: Signed by Blackford Additional sketch of Squirrel Corn ( Dicentra canadensis) on the back of the plate. Name: Sarraceulaceae (Pitcher Plant Family) Sarracenia purpurea (Pitcher Plant) Date: June 1930 Location: Lost Pond Name: Clethraceae Clethra alnifolia L. (Sweet Pepperbush) Date: August 1927 Location: Chestnut Hill Name: Primulaceae (Primrose Family) Hottonia inflata Ell. (Featherfoil, Water Violet) Location: Lynn Floating Bridge Notes: Signed by Blackford Blackford noted: 'Named for Peter Hatton. Botanist of Leyden'. Folder 8: Violaceae Family Viola conspersa and Viola palustris Name: Viola palustris? (on right) Name: Viola conspersa (on left) Date: 1926 Location: Ellis Mass Notes: Blackford noted that she thought the Violet palustris was V. Muhlenbergii Also included was the additon of a note by, Lily V. Tobey stating, "the two plants which caused so much excitement in botanic circles were: Viola conspersa, and viola palustris (This latter one was the one in flower)". Name: Viola cucullata? Date: May 30, 1915 Location: Ellis Name: Violaceae. Violet Family Notes: Signed by Blackford Folder 9: Ranunculaceae (Buttercup, Crowfoot Family) Baneberry Name: Baneberry Name: Ranunculus bulbosus (Bulbous Buttercup) Date: May 31, 1921 Location: Natick Mass. Notes: Signed by Blackford Sepals reflexed Name: Ranunculus cymbalariaPursh. (Sea-side Crowfoot) Date: July 17, 1915 Location: Revere marshes Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Actaea alba L. (White baneberry) Date: 1926 Notes: Signed by Blackford Folder 10: Fabaceae/Leguminosae (Legume, Pea, Bean, Pulse Family) Genista tinctoria L. Name: Baptisia tinctoria R. Br. (Wild Indigo) Date: July 1914 Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Coronilla varia? Location: Fenway. Back Bay Notes: Signed by Blackford Naturalized from Europe Name: Genista tinctoria L. (Dyer's Greenweed, Woad Waxen) Date: July 18, 1915 Location: Lynn- Salem Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Apios boerhaave (Groundnut, Wild Bean) Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Thermopsis montana? (Yellow Lupin) Date: May 15, 1921 Location: Natick Notes: Initialed by Blackford Contains an additonal sketch on the back as well as an attached note describing the plant in detail. Name: Lathyrus palustris (Beach Pea) Date: July 3, 1915 Location: Oak Island Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Lupinus perennis L. (Wild Lupine) Date: June 1915 Location: Saxonville Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Vicia cracca (Cow Vetch) Date: June 1915 Location: Ellis Mass. Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: L. maritimus Bigelow (Beach Pea) Date: May 24, 1915 Location: Marblehead Mass. Notes: Signed by Blackford Folder 11: Liliaceae (Lily Family) Trillium undulatum Name: Maianthemum racemosum (Solomon's Seal) Date: Oct. 1915 Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Trillium undulatum (Painted Trillium) Date: May 14 1916 Location: Ellis Mass. Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Lilium superbum L. (Turk's Cap Lily) Location: Ellis Mass.? Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Clintonia borealis Notes: Signed by Blackford Additonal sketch of a Anemone is on the back and noted by Blackford that she had 'no time to finish'. Name: Smilax rotundifolia (Common Greenbrier, Horse Brier, Cat Brier) Date: Oct 3, 1915 Location: Saxonville Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Erythronium americanum (Dog Tooth Violet, Yellow Adder's Tongue) Date: April 19, 1916 Location: Forest Hills Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Polygonatum biflorum (Solomon's Seal) Date: May 22, 1927 Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Trillium grandiflorum L. (Wake Robin, Birthroot) Date: May 13, 1916 Location: Salisbury N.H. Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Maianthemum canadense Desf. Date: June 3, 1916 Location: Stony Brook reservation Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Lilium philadelphicum (Red Lily, Wood Lily, Philadelphia Lily) Date: July 18, 1915 Location: Lynn Woods Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Clintonia borealis (Ait.) Raf. Location: Ellis Mass. Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Trillium cernuum (Nodding Trillium, Wake Robin, Birth-root) Date: May 14, 1916 Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Clintonia borealis Raf. Location: Ellis Mass. Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Smilacina stellata (False Solomon's Seal) Date: Wells Beach, ME. Location: Sept. 26, 1915 Notes: Signed by Blackford Sent by Miss Florence Gay Name: Medeola virginiana (Indian Cucumber) Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Smilax herbacea (Carrion Flower) Date: Sept. 26, 1915 Location: Lynn Woods Notes: Signed by Blackford Folder 12: Rosaceae (Rose Family) Crabapple Name: Raspberry Notes: Signed by Blackford A copy. Name: Crabapple Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Potentilla canadensis var. Simplex Date: Aug 11, 1917 Location: Revere Marshes Notes: Signed by Blackford (Mr. Rich) Name: Spiraea tomentosa (Steeplebush, Hardhack) Date: Aug 7, 1927 Location: Arlington Name: Potentilla arguta L. (Cinquefoil, Five Finger) Location: Bears Hill Waltham Mass. Notes: Signed by Blackford Gray p. 158 Name: Unknown. Date: 1924 Notes: Roses bought for Blackford by Mrs Cronin from her wild garden. Name: Potentilla canadensis? (Common Cirquefoil, Five finger) Date: June 11, 1916 Location: Echo Bridge Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Rosa canina Date: Dec. 12, 1915 (on the left), Nov. 1915 (on the right) Location: Arboretum (on the left), Ellis (on the right) Name: Agrimonia eupatoria L. (Common Agrimony) Date: Aug 1915 Location: Eaton Ohio Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Rubus hispidus Blackberry Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Wild Rose, Sweetbriar? Date: Nov. 21, 1915 Location: West Gloucester Name: Potentilla palustris Date: June 12, 1921 Location: Norumbega Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Potentilla anserina (Silverweed) Date: July 3, 1915 Location: Oak Island Notes: Blackford noted: 'B+B. page 216 (1934)' Name: Pyrus arbutifolia (Chokeberry) Date: Oct 2, 1915 (on the left), Oct. 9, 1915 (on the right) Location: Hort. Hall (on the left), Forest Hills Arboretum (on the right) Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Rubus odoratus (Purple Flowering Raspberry) Date: June 18, 1921 Location: Stony Brook Reservation Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Rubus odoratus (Purple Flowering Raspberry) Date: June 18, 1921		Location: Stony Brook Reservation Notes: Signed by Blackford Folder 13: Orchidaceae (Orchid Family) Cypripedium acaule Name: Orchid Location: Marlboro, N.H. Merrywood. Name: Cypripedium acaule (Ladies Slipper, Moccasin Flower) Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Cypripedium pubescens (Yellow Ladies Slipper, Whippoorwill's Shoe) Date: May 1915 Location: Ellis Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Spiranthes cernua (Ladies Tresses) Date: August 27, 1915 Location: Pequawket, N.H. Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Calopogon pulchellus (Grass Pinks) Date: June 1915 Notes: Signed by Blackford. Marked as unfinished. Name: Pogonia ophioglossoides Snake Mouth Location: Waltham Mass. Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Corallorhiza (Coral Root) Date: Nov. 1915 Name: Cypripedium acaule (Moccasin Flower, Stemless Ladies Slipper) Date: July 3 1916 Location: Stony Brook Reservation Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Habenaria fimbriata (Large Purple Fringed Orchid) Date: June 17, 1921 Location: Ellis Mass Notes: Signed by Blackford Folder 14: Miscellanous. Unknown. Name: Unknown Date: Unknown Location: Unknown Notes: Sketch depicts four yellow flowers. Name: Unknown Date: Unknown Location: Unknown Notes: Sketch depicts one pink flower. Name: Unknown Date: Unknown Location: Unknown Notes: Sketch depicts two yellow flowers. Name: Unknown Date: Unknown Location: Unknown Notes: Sketch depicts six yellow flowers, and a few buds. Name: Unknown Date: Unknown Location: Unknown Notes: Sketch depicts one reddish pink flower. Name: Unknown Date: Unknown Location: Unknown Notes: Sketch depicts one white flower, and two leaved stems in a vase Name: Unknown Date: Unknown Location: Unknown Notes: Sketch depicts one yellow flower, with three buds. Name: Unknown Date: Unknown Location: Unknown Notes: Sketch depicts three flowers, one yellow and two orange-red. Name: Unknown Date: Unknown Location: Unknown Notes: Sketch depicts two flowers in a blue and gray vase. Name: Unknown Date: Unknown Location: Unknown Notes: Sketch depicts a lake surrounded by trees and pink and blue flowers. Name: Unknown Date: Unknown Location: Unknown Notes: Sketch depicts a bunch of pink and purple flowers. Name: Thought to be either Valerian or Polemonium Date: Aug 1915 Location: Eaton Ohio Name: Unknown Date: Sunday May 2, 1931 Location: Unknown Notes: Contains a note by Blackford that is illegible. Name: Thought to be a glabra Date: Aug 16, 1933 Location: Stony Brook Notes: Noted as having 21 leaves Name: Unknown Date: May 1927 Location: Swamp. Ellis. Notes: Sketch depicts a planted pot full of dark and light purple flowers. Signed by Blackford Folder 15: Miscellaneous Unknown. Name: Unknown Date: June 3, 1916 Location: Stony Brook Reservation Notes: Sketch depicts two red, pink and yellow flowers. Name: Unknown Date: Unknown Location: Fenway Notes: Noted as 'memo' by Blackford. Sketch depicts one pink flower. Name: Unknown Date: 1925 Location: Ellis on edge of swamp-pond dry Notes: Noted to 'try again for it' by Blackford. Sketch depicts two yellow flowers. Name: Unknown Date: Unknown Location: Unknown Notes: Sketch depicts a small bunch of purple flowers. Name: Unknown Date: Unknown Location: Unknown Notes: Sketch depicts a small bunch of pink and white flowers. Name: Unknown Date: Unknown Location: Unknown Notes: Sketch depicts a large batch of flowers and leaves that range in many colors, such as purple, yellow, green, red and brown. Name: Unknown Date: Unknown Location: Unknown Notes: Sketch depicts a small batch of flowers. Sketch is only partially colored. Name: Unknown Date: Unknown Location: Unknown Notes: Sketch depicts a batch of leaves and is in pencil without any color. Name: Unknown Date: Unknown Location: Unknown Notes: Sketch depicts what looks like four red-ornage fruit hanging from a branch. Name: Unknown Date: Unknown Location: Unknown Notes: Sketch depicts what looks like three small red fruit and branches. Name: Unknown Date: Unknown Location: Unknown Notes: Sketch depicts three flowers- two purple and one pink. Name: Unknown Date: 1880 Location: Unknown Notes: Sketch depicts two white flowers amongst brush. Name: Unknown Date: Unknown Location: Unknown Notes: Noted as being a copy. Sketch depicts a small bunch of white and pink flowers amongst a branch with green leaves. Name: Unknown Date: Unknown Location: Unknown Notes: Sketch is only in pencil without any color and depicts many flowers on a small branch. Folder 16: Miscellaneous Unknown. Name: Unknown Date: 1886 Location: Unknown Notes: Sketch depicts a small bunch of red flowers. Name: Unknown Date: Unknown Location: Unknown Notes: Sketch depicts a small tree. Name: Empetrum nigrum (Black Crowberry)- top left. Vaccinium oxycoccos (Small Cranberry)-top right. Celastrus scandens (Bittersweet)- bottom left. Vaccinium uliginosum (Bob Bilberry)- bottom right. Date: Sept. 1915 Location: Cohasset Notes: Four plants are sketched on one plate. Name: Maple Sumac Notes: Both are illustrated on the same plate. Name: Oats and Acorns Notes: Initialed by Blackford Noted as being a copy. Name: Berberis vulgaris L. (Common Barberry)- located on the right. Lindera benzoin Blume. (Wild Allspice, Feverbush, Spicebush, Benjamin Bush) Located on the left. Location: The Barberry is noted as being naturalized from Europe. Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Illiciaceae (Holly Family)- located on the right. Loranthaceae (Mistletoe Family) - Questioned by Blackford as possibly being Phoradendron- Located on the left. Name: American Yew Date: July 20, 1924 Location: Ellis Mass. Notes: Initialed by Blackford Name: Chamaecyparis thyoides (L.) B.S.P. (Coast White Cedar, White Cedar) Date: Dec. 14, 1915 Location: Lost Pond Name: Thuja occidentalis (L.) (Arborvitae, White Cedar) Name: Juniperus virginiana (L.) (Red Juniper, Savin Cedar) Date: Dec. 19, 1915 Location: Ellis Mass. Name: Houstonia longifolia Date: June 13, 1915 Location: Blue Hill. On the tip-top. Observatory-Gray. Name: Geranium maculatum (Wild Geranium or Crane's Bill) Date: May 30, 1916 Location: Echo Bridge Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Humulus lupulus L. (Common Hop) Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Rhamnus cathartica (Common Buckthorn) Date: Two dates are listed. Dec. 5, 1915 ( on the front of the plate) Nov. 12, 1916 (on the back) Location: Chestnut Hill Notes: Signed by Blackford Folder 17: Miscellaneous Unknown Name: Unknown Date: Unknown Location: Unknown Notes: Sketch depicts a shrub or brush like plant. Name: Asimina triloba (Common Pawpaw) Date: Aug. 1925 Location: Eaton Ohio Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Cornus canadensis L. (Dwarf Bunchberry) Date: Oct.? Location: Pride's Crossing Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Rhexia virginica (Meadow Beauty, Deer Grass) Date: Sept. 5, 1915 Location: Ellis Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Lobelia siphilitica (Great Lobelia) Date: Aug. 1915 Location: Eaton Ohio. By the bridge. Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Campanula americana (Tall Bellflower) Date: Aug. 1915 Location: Eaton Ohio Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Solanum nigrum L. Date: Sept. 1927 Location: Nahant Notes: Mounted. Noted as a "memo". Note by Blackford on the back of the plate stating, "Solanum nigrum L. Although the fruit of this plant is reputed poisnonous, nevertheless in some places it is used in making pies. The plant is even cultivated for its fruit. A form bearing very large fine fruit was observed in a garden at Rossie and the proprietor assured me he used the fruit for food. Cooking appears to destroy its deleterious qualities. The cultivated form is locally known as 'garden huckleberry'. State Bot. N.Y.C.H. Peck." (Quoted from the Museum Bulletin, Issues 137-140 by the New York State Museum, 1910). Name: Solanum dulcamara Name: Iris versicolor (Larger Blue Flag, Fleur de lis) Location: Saxonville, Mass. Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Iris prismatica (Slender Blue Flag) Date: July 4, 1915 Location: Oak Island Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Polygala paucifolia (Fringed Milkwort, Flowering Wintergreen) Notes: Initialed by Blackford. Noted by Blackford as magenta on white. Sketches of flowers located on the front and back of the plate. Name: Polygala polygama Date: July 18, 1915 Location: Lynn Floating Bridge Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Corydalis Date: Oct. 24, 1915 Location: Lynn Woods Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: (from left to right) Lycopodium clavatum, lycopodium complanatum, lycopodium lucidulum (Shining Club Moss), lycopodium obscurum Date: Dec. 1915 Location: Ellis Notes: Four plates located on the same plate. Name: Xyris caroliniana (Yellow Eyed Grass Family) Date: June 16, 1916 Location: Stony Brook Mass. Notes: Signed by Blackford Folder 18: Miscellaneous Prickly Headed Poppy Name: Penthorum sedoides (Ditch stonecrop) Name: Hamamelis virginiana L. Date: Late October 1915 Location: Ellis Mass. Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Hypericum virginicum L. (Marsh St. Johnswort) Date: Aug 25, 1917 Location: Norumbega Name: Hypericum sarothra (St. Johnswort) Date: Sept. 2, 1917 Location: Pequawket Notes: Noted by Blackford as, "named at ex. in Hort Hall". Name: Elodea canadensis (Choke Pondweed, Water Weed) Date: August 4, 1917 Location: Fenway Notes: Noted as formerly being Anacharis canadensis B &B 105 Fig. 248 Name: Sagittaria latifolia (Arrowhead) Date: Aug. 14, 1917 Location: Natick Mass Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Marsilea quadrifolia Date: August, 14 1917 Location: Echo Bridge, Mass. Notes: Also found at Saxonville, June 17, 1915 Name: Phytolacca decandra (Common Pokeweed, Scoke) Date: Oct 25, 1915 Location: Lynn Woods Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Sanguinaria canadensis L. (Bloodroot) Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Prickly Headed Poppy Date: May 2nd, 1882 Notes: Initialed by 'F.W.F' Name: Podophyllum L. (Mayapple, Mandrake) Date: August 1925 Location: Eaton, Ohio. Fort St. Clair Notes: Signed by Blackford. Fruit ripe to July. Name: I. glabra? (Inkberry) Date: Dec. 12, 1915 Location: Arboretum Notes: 'p.109 Gray' Name: Draba verna L.(Whitlow Grass) Date: April 7, 1916 Location: Eastham Mass. Notes: Signed by Blackford. Naturalized from Europe Name: Draba verna (Whitlow Grass) Date: April 7, 1916 Location: Eastham, Mass Name: dentaria diphylla (Toothwort or Crinkleroot) Date: May 19, 1916 Location: Ellis, Mass. Notes: Signed by Blackford Miscellaneous: Folder 19 Hemlock Name: Mitchella repens (Partridge Berry, Twinberry) Date: Dec. 18th, 1915 Location: Ellis, Mass Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Caryophyllaceae (Pink Family) Location: Mountain Park Name: Araliaceae (Ginseng Family) Date: June 11, 1916 Location: Echo Bridge Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Black Birch Date: Winter 1916 Name: Alnus (Alder) Date: Dec. 16, 1915 ? Location: Chestnut Hill Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Black Birch (left) Llex (right) Date: Oct. 17, 1915 (left) Oct. 22, 1905 (right) Location: Echo Bridge (left) Waverly (right) Notes: Two plants are sketched on one plate. Name: Hemlock Date: Dec. 1915 Name: Cancer root Date: June 1931 ? Location: On a trip to Manchester with Teacher's School of Science Notes: Noted by Blackford as 'abudant on hillside- swampy at foot of hill'. Name: Bladderwort Date: July Location: Stony Brook Reservation by the pond in bog. Name: Mimulus ringens (Monkey Flower) Date: August 6, 1933 Location: Blue Hills, Milton Notes: Unfinished sketch Name: Scutellaria galericulata ? (Skull Cap) Date: July 25, 1915 Location: Echo Bridge Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: scutellaria versicolor ? Date: Aug 1915 Location: Eaton Ohio Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Buckwheat Date: July 1930 Name: Carex stricta Date: May 2nd, 1931 Location: Winchester, Mass. Notes: Initialed by Blackford Miscellaneous: Folder 20 Parnassia caroliniana Name: Polygonella articulata Date: Oct. 3rd, 1926 Location: Natick Mass Notes: Signed by Blackford. Identified by Mr. Rich Name: Polygonum hydropiper L. (Common Smartweed, Water Pepper) Located on the left. Date: Sept 26, 1926 Location: Blue Hill, Milton Notes: Signed by Blackford, Identified by Mr. Rich Polygonum persicaria (Ladies Thumb)- on the right. Name: Gentiana crinita (Fringed Gentian) Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Gentiana andrewsii (Closed Gentian) Date: Sept. 12th, 1915 Location: Natick Mass Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Sabatia dodecandra (Large Marsh Pink) Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Asclepias verticillata ? (Narrow Leaved Plant) Name: Asclepias quadrifolia Date: Aug. 21, 1926 Location: Fells Notes: Signed by Blackford. Identified by Mr. Rich Name: Viburnum opulus L. (Cranberry Tree) Date: Oct. 3, 1905 Location: Horticultural Hall Name: Linnaea borealis (Twin Flower) Date: Aug. 1915 Location: Pequawket, N.H. Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Triosteum aurantiacum (Feverwort, Tinker's Weed, Wild Coffee) Date: Oct. 14, 1917 Location: Middlesex Fells Notes: Signed by Blackford. Flowering in May. Name: Viburnum dentatum L. (Arrowwood)- on the left. Viburnum acerifolium L. (Dockmackie, Arrowwood)- on the right. Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Celtis occidentalis L. (Hackberry, Sugarberry, Hoopash, False Elm) Location: Fenway Notes: Signed by Blackford. Woods and river banks. Name: Zizia aurea (Early Meadown Parsnip) Date: May 27th, 1928 Location: Lake Nagua Notes: Signed by Blackford Name: Parnassia caroliniana (Grass of Parnassus) Date: Sept. 18, 1915 Location: Berlin, Mass Notes: Signed by Blackford. Fed. Nat. Hist. Soc. Marlboro Mass
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