UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 

 BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY. 



TAXONOMIC AND RANGE INVESTIGATIONS. 



Washington, D . C . , 



March 8, 1912. 



Mr. Walter Dearie, 



29 Brewster St, , 



Cambri dge , Mass . 



Dear Sir : — 



Your letter of the 5th received. I do not think it is saf 

 ever to oite anything from memory — at least in print. I should not 

 have done so in a letter, hut I thought I had a distinct memory of 

 that ugly looking plant in fruit collected by myself and also 

 by Virginius Chase in Stark co. But unverified statements helong 

 to journalism not science, I "plead guilty to having" committed" 

 journalism in a letter, hut I trust you would not he guilty of 

 a like sin in print. If I can ever get at my herbarium at the 

 University of Illinois I shall look up this Eiiphorhia. 



ery truly yours, 



Scientific Assistant in Systematic Agrostology. 



