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L. H. BAILEY 

 ETHEL ZOE BAILEY, ASSlSTAUT 



ITHACA. N. Y. 



Feb. 6, 1013. 



Mr. Walter Dearie, 

 Brewster St., 



Cambridge, liass. 

 lay dear Deane: 



Do you want to Help mo a minute on the deriva- 

 tion of a generic name? The name I have 2L# mind Is Ariocar- 

 pus, one of the Gactaceae which is now coming back as a 

 good generic name. I do not find the origin of this name 

 anywhere in the books. I suppose that it might be taken|to 

 mean arum-carpelled though I do not at all see the signifi- 

 cance in it for a cactus. Unfortunately I do not have aceess 

 to the Bulletin of the Brussells Academy for 1838 who o the 

 name was made and perhaps the name is not there explained. 

 Possibly you can give me a suggestion as to the derivation. 

 Sincerely yours, 



totaled but not signed 

 hv L. H. BaiN 



