UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 

 DIVISION OF BOTANY, 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



January 17, 1895. 



Mr. Walter Deane, 



3 Prewster Street, Cambridge, 



Mas s achuse 1 1 s . 



Dear Sir:-* 



The first record of the presence of Lactuca scariola 

 in tMs country seons to be a specimen in the Harvard Herbarium, 

 collected at Cambridge in 1863. This is one of the most abund- 

 ajit of the recently introduced weeds in the region north of the 

 Ohio Kiver, I wovld like to obtain information concerning its 

 distribution and character as a weed in Massachusetts. Will you 

 kindly give ke such data as you have that may be used in mapping 

 its present distribution. 



Yours truly. 



Assistant Botanist. 



