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lErniK ()!• TRANSMITTAL. 



U. S. DkI'AKTMKNT ok AoUirULTUKE, 



Division ok Botany, 



^y"»hi>)fft.m, J), r., Av(/tt.sf w, moo. 



hin: I have, tho lionor to transmit lu-rowith and to rocoinni(MHl for 

 pul.licaeion as C^ontiihutlo.i.s from the Unitod States National Hor- 

 I'anum Volume VII, No. 1. a manuscript by John M. Coulter and 



.i. ^. H..S,., entitle(l •' M(,m>K'raph of the North Ameriean r.ul,elliferae " 

 Kespeitfully, 



FUKDEKICK V. COVILLK, 



IT , ,,. Botani.i<t. 



tU.n. ,/AMES Wilson, 



Secretary of Agriculture, 



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