UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 

 BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY. 



TAXOIMOMIC AND RANGE INVESTIGATIONS. 



Washington, D. C . , 



February 7, 1911. 



Mr . Walter Deane , 



29 Brewster St . , 



Cambridge, Mass. 



Dear Sir: 



Your favor of January 29 and the package "were received some 

 time since. Please pardon my delay in acknowledging them. We have 

 not yet had time to open the package but shall do so before long. 

 I shall keep your list of desiderata at hand and fill in when occa- 

 sion offers, though as several of the species you lack are rare and 

 as our collecting will now be mostly devoted to other genera, we 

 may not be able to supply many. We were delighted lately to 

 receive from Mr. Herriot, of Gait, Ontario a few specimens of Pan- 

 icum calliphyllum Ashe. Prof. Hitchcock is going to send one of 

 these to the Gray Herbarium and another to Hackel. There is one 

 in N. E . Botanical Club herbarium. Do you correspond with Mr. Parlin 

 of Maine? He is in the locality of P. Ifeflgi? i duta . If you secure 

 any specimens of this from him we should be glad to have you share 

 with us . 



Yours respectfully, 



Assistant in Systematic Agrostology. 



