LETTHR OF TRANSMITTAL 



U. S. Department of Agriculture, 



Division of Botany, 

 Washington, D. C, February 11, 1806'. 

 Sir : I have the lioiior ofpioseutiiig for i)ublication the secoud part of "Grasses 

 of tlie Pacific Slope, Including' Alaska and the Adjacent Islands," which completes the 

 second volume of " lllustratious of North American Grasses." I respectfully recom- 

 mend that when the jjrintins' of this work shall have been completed a suitable 

 number of copies shall be bound with the tiist jiart of the same volume, which was 

 issued in October, IS'Jli, as Bulletin No. 13, part i, of this Division. 



Geo. Vasey, 



Botanist. 

 Hon. J. M. Rusk, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



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