LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. 
V:S 5 OF e 
DIVISION OF AGROSTO 
Waskiagion N. G., 795 i a 1896. 
SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith and to recommend for 
publication as a bulletin of this division several technical papers on 
grasses which together may be entitled Studies on American Grasses. 
Enumerations of grasses of little explored regions, descriptions of new 
or little known genera and species, with a revision of the North Ameri- 
can species of Hordeum and Agropyron, are included in these studies. 
Also a report upon certain Panicums in the Berlin Herbarium, by 
Mr. Theo. Holm, who was authorized by the Secretary to make the 
necessary examinations when in Europe in 1894. 
Respectfully, 
F. LAMSON-SCRIBNER, 
Agrostologist. 
Hon. CHAs. W. DABNEY, Jr. 
As siiami ora. 
