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U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 



DIVISION OF BOTANY, 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



March 13,1896. 



Mr. Walter Deane, 



Garxibridge, Mass. 

 My dear Deane 



The engraving of Dr. Gray reached me last ene- 

 ning and appears to be in perfectly good condition. I will take 

 the best of care of it and return it directly to you at the close 

 of the Exhibition. How I wish you were to be here.* I find that 

 the"Bee Bulletin" is entirely exhausted. A bill has just passed 

 the House , however, authorizing the printing of 20,000 copies ^ I 

 have sent your address to the author of the bulletin and he prom- 

 ises to see that you get a copy if the bill becomes a law. You 

 had better let me send your brother a copy also. 



Yours very truly, 

 P.S. I do not quite understand when you say Heracleum ^^^iatiinl '^^s^ 

 two tubes on the commissural and 4 in the intervals. You do not mean 



of course, 4 in each interval ; there are 4 intervals on the back and 

 therefore the oil tubes would be solitary, and so we say under 2^ 

 on page 18. If this is not the plan of your fruit then you have 

 something which I have never seen. By the way, I have just got 

 hold of a photograph of this species from Gommarder Island^ Would 

 you like to have one for your herbarium? 



