UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 

 BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY. 



TAXONOMIC AND RANGE INVESTIGATIONS. 



Washington, D. 0., January 5, 1911. 



Mr . Walter Deane, 



29 Brewster St . , 

 Cambridge , Mass , 



Dear Sir: 



The box with your specimens arrived safely this morning. 

 We have just gone over them and shall return them by express to- 

 morrow. Among your Panic urns two specimens fill up gaps in the 

 range as given in the monograph, P. flexile from Maryland and 

 P. lineari folium from Virginia. The latter chagrined as much 

 as it pleased me for I have diligently searched Virginia about here 

 and elsewhere I have been in the state for this species. It 

 grows along the north shore of the Potomac and certainly ought to 

 be found on the other side. Judge Churchill's specimen, however, 

 is from a region I have never visited. It was unfortunate (for us) 

 that you glue your specimens down for I never hesitate to take at 

 least a small piece of such additions for deposit in the grass her- 

 barium. Perhaps in consideration of my forbearance in this case 

 you will kindly remove a single plant of each and send it for the 

 herbarium. I enclose a frank in case my hopes be fulfilled. 



Yours respectfully, j . 



Assistant in Systematic Agrostology 



