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I think I wrote to you some months ago that I was planning to 

 nane a new genus for Dr. Robinson, but it is a little hard to decide 

 upon the name, Robinsonia is a vsry pretty name but of course this 

 can not be used. The name is already long and can only take a 

 short prefix or suffix. What would you think of lleorob inso nia? 

 ?/ould it be too inuch trouble for you to find out in a round about 

 way what would be his wishes in the matter. fly new genus contains 

 3 species of handsome flowering shrubs or trees from Mexico. 



The herbarium people have got things turned about with refer- 

 ence to Z izia =^nd T haspium . I transferred nearly all of their 

 Thaspium aura^m to Zizia when I was there in the fall. I think you 

 have as good a representation of Thasp iu m aureumas any one in this 

 count x"/. I have seen Hills article but have not had time to read 



it . 



Yours very truly, 



Assistant Curator, 



Department of Botany. 



