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shorter, to keep it out of the var .macro sperma. I have labeled 

 our specimens in this way as this appears to be the best thing to 

 do. 



Professor Coulter »pent a week with me the last part of Febru- 

 ary and I can assure you that we put in considerable work upon 

 Umbellife rae. Besides a score of new species we have about decided 

 upon three new genera. The one yon will probably be most inter- 

 ested in is Deanea, standing on two legs^ D. tuberosa and D. nudicaulis 

 I am glad ttiat Deanea is to be such a near relative of Coulterophy- 

 tuiii and Rhodosc iadium. 



No, I have not yet seen Bailey's Field and Garden Botany, al- 

 though we have an order in for it» 



Yours truly, 



