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U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 

 DIVISION OF BOTANY, 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



October 9th, 1894. 



Mr. Walter Deane, 



Brewster Place, Cambridge, Mass. 

 My dear Deane: 



Your card of October 5th and package of AEgopodium were 

 received yesterday. I thank ym very m.i oh indeed for such a fine 

 specimen. Even this plant has fairly good fruit. I am sorry your 

 brother made the mistake. I have just had a similar exnerience. 

 Sometime in the forties Sir \Yilliam Hooker described Angel ic a vev^ 

 ticillata from specimens sent frcm the Mez Perces Indian reserva- 

 tion in northern Idaho. Since then we have known nothing about 

 the plant and Dr. Watson and others have thrown doubt xipon its 

 being an Angelica but could not sugp-est the proper genus. I have 

 recently been looking the matter nv and came to the conclusion 

 that it was a Ligiasticum. To a friaid of mine who was just start- 

 ing for the Nez Perces Indian reservation I gave a description and 

 asked him to get specimens. A few days ago I received a specimen 

 from him which turned out to be nothing but Cicuta nac^.ilat a/ 



Very sincerely yours, 



