DOMESTIC REINDEER INTO ALASKA. 85 



U. S. Department of Agriculture, 



Division of Botany, 

 Wet shin (/ton, D. C, December 14, 1S94. 

 Dear Sir: The two packages recently received from you, one a lot of dried speci- 

 mens collected by Dr. White, the other a package of native, reindeer food of Alaska, 

 were received yesterday. The collection of Dr. White will require a considerable 

 time to examine, as a large number of species are represented in it. The package of 

 reindeer food, however, consists principally of reindeer moss (Cladonia rangiferina), 

 an unidentifiable sedge of the genus Carex, and branches of two species of willow. 

 The box contains also fragments of a cotton grass, Eriophoruin, and of two other 

 grasses without common names belonging to the genera Poa and Arctagrostis 

 besides a few fragments of a club moss, Lycopodium, and some of the true mosses. 

 If this material is of value to you, I will have it returned to your office if you will 

 kindly notify me by telephone. 



Yours, very sincerely, Frederick V. Coville, 



Botanist. 

 Dr. Sheldon Jackson, 



Bureau oj Education, Washington, D. C. 



