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10-15 yeara haa imialgrated ovorywhore In tho 3outh,growa on the 

 most inferior 30ils p and is auppoaed to be an exoellent fodd er- 

 plant. 



The Irls must be virglnioa, if perhaps it 1b not a large Verna« 

 The f lower will eaally show ita identlty. 



I was very pleaaed wlth Leavenworthla. The Mlehauxll I oolleoted 

 many yeara ago In Missouri, the other was miaaing In wy herbarlunw 



The Anaoharia haa male f lowera, oura havlng 9 anthers • Zt 1s report- 

 ed that aome oooura with three (anthers ) v perhapa another speolea; Z 

 have not seen it. They oome off when they bogin to blosaom and float 

 on the water in great quantitiea; did you aee it? In Europe only the 

 female plant haa immigrated. 



So you have oolleoted in Eaat Tenne saee. Did you know the late Rugel 

 there? What oan have happened to hla colleotions? 



Mr# Gurtisa in Florida haa reoontly invited me to aend you plante in 

 exohange for objeota from Florida, First of all Z am going to aend 

 you a paroel of Juncus(Havard Herbarium) 9 of which I atill have some 

 in atook. Thon other things too. Would papers on botanloal matters 

 anawer your purpoae? I oan send you raany of thia klnd # and 1 shall do 

 it right now. 



Dft atudy Arundinarla very correotly, Z am oolleoting tho forms in 

 order to olarlfy the question flnally« I have found it onlv once, at 

 the Ohio, in April (very a ma 11 f unduub t od ly teotal)in blosaoma« 



NB.Notice in openlng the inner paoket that loose aeeda are lying 

 everywhere with the plant aj they ahould be oarefully oolleoted and put 

 in paekets. What la your botanloal ourrioulum? From where do you oome, 

 and where did you atudy botany? Z oan very well widerstand that the 

 loaa of on'a collootiona, whioh you have montioned, la disoouraging. 



