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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 

 DIVISION OF BOTANY, 



WASHINGTON, D. O. 



March 20,1895. 



Mr. Walter Deane, 



Cambridge, Mass. 

 My de ar Mr . De ane : - 



Your note of recent date has been received. 

 Our new genus Deanea I think is going to be able to stand, but I 

 purpose to give it one more careful going over before publishing 

 it. I feel quite disappointed that I will not be able to have it 

 illustrated here. I had planned to figure it in our Contributions 

 and had kept it back till the very last. Mr. Coville , however , had a 

 plant which he was anxious to have figured and this consequently 

 cut Deanea out. Have you not a good friend at Cambridge who would 

 be willing to assume the expens of a plate? Mr.Paxton and Meisal 

 could be depended upon to make an elegant plate. I think there 

 would be no trouble then in getting the genus published in the Bot- 

 anical Gazette. You are not to understand that I wish you to be 

 at any personal expense in this matter, but this is simply a sugges- 

 tion that you might be able to carry out. There is a chance yet 

 of my having an illustration made here and if so I shall most cer- 

 tainly avail myself of it. There is a very good reason for the 



