2 — Mr. Walter Deane. 



Vienna Code is a "bad one, I think, and must lead to instability in 

 many oases. 



I note under J?, o all 1 phy 1 1 um that the Gait, Ontario^ station 

 is overlooked. I think we sent a specimen of it to Gray Herbari\un 

 from a few sent us by Mr. Herr5ott. Boston makes a good show- 

 ing in grasses. By the way, is not P. huaohncae (1898) vtr. fas- 

 cioulatum Torr. (1824) an anachronism? Does not the form first 

 described become the species (Dr. Robinson xieed to hold to %hat), 

 in which case var. silvieola would be P. f.e soicxilatum Torr. (but 

 for that of owartz )and ?. huachuoae, var. huachucae. I think that 

 provision the more bewildering the more it is followed. Panicum 

 strictum R. Br. has been referred to P. marginatum R. Br., but from 

 study of our Aiistralian material recently, I think an apparently 

 very rare species is the real P. strictum which is not P. margj - 

 natum. Brown's descriptions show kern observation ant? I should 

 be inclined to trust him. Besides the two are published on the 

 same page, "5. P. strictum" in II first, "|f. , P. marginatum" under 

 III near the bottom. Regardless of codes I should think P. depau- 

 peratnm Muhl. for our species the more likely to prove stable. 



I enjoyed your previous letter. On the evenings of our. 

 little Botanical oeminar Dr. Greene, Mr. Bartlett and one or 

 two others take dinner with me and I enjoy i t very much. 



Dr. Trelease arrived here today. I am rejoicing over the 

 announcement in science that he is going to the University of 



