UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 



DIVISION OF AGROSTOLOGY, 



WASHINGTON, D. O. 



June 9, 189«» 



Mr. Walter Deane, 



9 Brewster Street , 



Cambridge , Mass . 



My dear Mr. Deane: 



I am greatly obliged for the copy of the "Plora of the 



Blue Hills and other Reservations of the Metropolitan Park Comnis- 



spent a good deal of time upon it, and in glancing it over I think 

 you have reason to be well pleased with its appearance. 



I have not yet, I believe, acknowledged the receipt of a num- 

 ber of grasses from your herbarium, mostly Paniums, which you sent 

 me for examination some time ago. I have glanced over the lot, 

 and find that there are a number of sheets which will require more 

 study than I can give them just now to render a final decision, and 

 then who knows if the decision will be final? 



\ifhat do you think of the way in which Mr. Small has treated 



OEnother a in the last Bulletin? I do not know very much about the 



species in the genus OEnothera, but I imagine if the genus Panicum 



was treated in the same way, we would havemore new genera than now 



exist in the whole family of Gramineae , and considering the order 



Gramineae,it would not be very difficult for an imaginative mind to 

 make a number of new orders out of it, working on the same basis. 



sion" . 



The work shows a great deal of care, and you must have 



Kindly remember me to Mrs. Deane. 



Yours very sincerely, 



