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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



S. p. LANGLEY 



WASMINQTON, D. c, Jan .4,1 899, 



Mr. Walter Deane, 



Caiiibridge, Mass, 

 My dear Deane : 



To my great joy Mr. J. G. Smith sends me a dupli- 



cat e type specimen of Lophotocarpus spathulatus for Mr. Walter 



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Deane, whose address i dc ; not know. I take great pleasure in 

 forwarding this specimen to Mr. Deane. You nray already have the 

 species in your collection. Tell me what you think of it. Mr. 

 Smith also has a new Sagittaria from New England but I fear I 

 can not get a specimen for you. Mr. Smith's address ia, Division 

 of Agrostology, Department of Agriculture. 



(A^istant Curator, 



Department of Botany, 



