Brunet, Ovide 
1867, May 14th 
qjuebec, Canada, 
Quebec, 14 May 1967. 
me 
Dear Sir, 
I received your letter of April 22nd and I rush to answer some of your 
questions, 
1. Ît was my desire to give a photograph of P, nigra;s but this tree is 
only found in the forest, It was impossible, inspite of my nuermous searches, 
to find one in an isolated spot to phograph it, 
2. vince PF, alba is found in the forest, but since it grows at greath 
heights it is somestimes strirred comoletel but it is cultivated here ïin the 
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parks or to be found in isolatéd spots, and if photographed it seems to be 
just as the one in no, 1, 
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3.With regard toe the diamater of the cones of P, alba, one finds them often more 
slender, but it is geldom that one finds them with a diameter as given in the 
figures c, a, and d with a diameter of a little more than 1/2 inch, The figure of 
bhe cone of PF, nigra is also described rather exactly, L[ believes but + have 
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to inform you that this form is also not as well known as the one you described; 
I noticed this, but too late. 
4, With regard to the leaves, as I said on p. 6, their size varies much, 
even among the same species, 
5, 1 did not say in the brochure that the Abies rubra belongs to the genus 
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Larixs IL only say that the tree commonly called "“Epinettes roughe!'! belongs to 
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that genus. Îhe tops leave no doubht; our Canadians call it ''Epinettes rougë!" this 
is the tree which the English call American larch or Lr Lmarac, 
6. With regard to the cotyledons given in each description, I don't have 
any intention to specify them, I have examined a great number of seeds; ÎI have 
furthermore sown seeds of various crops and I give the number of cotyledons which 
I most frequently encountered, That is why I said, speaking of P, nigra: Cotyledons 
ordinarily four, seldom more, which does not exclude a larger number, may be 6 and %, 
Now to your previous letter, I have now reteiïvaédthe latest issue of the 
Transactions of St, Louis. I thank you for sending it. In one of my letters I told 
you S. fluitans is found loo miles north of Quebec, I believed this information to 
be correct since Î received it from a reliable sources I copied this note from 
a herbarium label of Michaux's while Î was in Paris, It read ‘'found on the side 
of Chicontini which is one of the tributaries of Saqueray'"",. I hesitated a little 
to send you this plant which is commonly known in Canada under the name of 
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