UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 

 BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY. 



ECONOMIC AND SYSTEMATIC BOTANY. 



Washington, D. C, July 27, 1914. 



Mr, Walter Deane, 



Shelburne , Hew Hampshire . 



Dear Sir: — 



Your letter of July received. We shall he very glad 

 indeed to have the sets of Panicum boreale and P. xanthophysum 

 you have kindly collected for our distribution. We shall be glad 

 to have the extra specimens, because of these species, being 

 beyond our reach, we have no duplicate material. One label or one 

 slip of paper with data is all that is needed with each collec- 

 tion, as we have labels like the enclosed printed for distribu- 

 tion. Mr. Hubbard, who is up in How Brunswick, wrote that he 

 would get P. subvillosum. Mr. Hubbard came here June 1 but felt 

 so unwell he left before the month was up. Fortunately the 

 trouble proved to be due to his eyes and was dispelled by new 

 glasses. He does not endure heat well, however, and I guess 

 he hardly loves grasses well enough to swelter here for their 

 sake. 



Professor Hitchcock has been crossing snow banks in Glacier 

 National Park where he has been camping and collecting. He is 

 now in the Canadian Rockies. 



Please extend our thanks to Dr. Pease for his set. I enclose 

 franks. Thanking you again. I am, 



Yours respectfully, 



Scientific Assistant in Systematic Agrostology. 



