UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 

 BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY. 



ECONOMIC AND SYSTEMATIC BOTANY. 



Washington, D. 0., May 8, 1915. 



Mr. w alter Deane , 



29 Brewster St . , 



G amb r i dge , Ma s sa chus e 1 1 s . 



Dear Mr. Deane : 



Your kini letter of May 2 received. 



Lamium purpureum is found in various places about here. 

 Professor Hitchcock collected it this spring, too. It is in our 

 local list. The man who said we had only I. amplexicaule was 

 certainly mistaken. — as v;e all are at times. 



We all enjoyed your hrief visit and regret you Aid not 

 stay longer. I am particularly elated just now over Cypripedium 

 acaule in bloom in my garden. I transplanted it from a sphagnum 

 swamp last summer. There are "between seventy and eighty species 

 of our local flora now well established in the garden. I did not 

 realize there were so many until I counted the list recently. This 

 does not include any shrubs, though several are native, but only 

 the things I have brought in from the woods and fields. The dozen 

 or more violets are especially thrifty. There are some 15 species 

 of grasses, Uniola latifolia, the gem of the lot, in front of a 

 Spiraea and a background for Prau Drushki — if she ever blooms. 



