Excerpt from Torreya, Vol. 38: A Bi-Monthly Journal of Botanical Notes and News, January-February, 1938

The interesting thing about the Lespedeza record is that this is the first report of this phenomenon from the large and widely distributed family of Leguminosae (using the name in the old sense) that has come to my notice. That particular spe cies is common and widely distributed, in dry woods, nearly throughout the eastern United States, and it is strange that no one had noticed ice crystals on it before. But probably most botanists do not get out in the country early enough on frosty mornings to keep up with what is going on in nature.

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