Cryptogamio Botany 



A*ftEM«TMENT OF THE OBSERVER' 



ELIZABETH Q. BRITTON, Editor. 



Columbia College, New York City. • UrCh I 2th f T 89 7, 



Pe ar t)¥ . K enno dy , 



"'our of the 9th with enclosures is re- 

 ceived T gm glad you traced out that -.artmla. T have been ill in 

 bed f o ur days frith one of my acute attackes of indigestion, and 

 did not <-ot a c'- no e to hunt ! . p an il li ne rvi s at the Ooll ege as i 

 wanted to do. v es, that "ypnun Waa from 'ass achustts , and was 



nrobablt collected fro by "Iney, ^rom the hnpman -erbarium, but 

 neither Mr. -rout nor T looked at it , Tn g^lnf* over our unnmaed ot 

 misnamed material he frutjfl this, and f snot i' to you because it 

 was from "ass. 1 o not bother to return it, as it is of mo m value 

 in yott? c e 1 1 a ct I on t '-an i n ours . 



T a«3 charmed with r ixons -andbook, and have written him a 1 ong let* 

 sending specimens of all the American mosses referred to in his. 

 foot-notes, and asking to see VagttW nes unnamed ones to which he 

 refers* T like -amesons -eys much bet or than :vR/-,arnes. That refc, 

 bifurcating method is better than the eman, and there is more 



plain com-- on sense, less " deuter" and storied, and Other bewilder- 

 ing things for the novice, and more macorscopic and leaf characters 

 In other words there is more plain common sense.! have tried to use 

 Dr. "arnes T'eys on icranum, irimmia, and ?>1 agiothe c ium and they 

 fail dismlly, and would utterly if 7 did not know the species fair- 

 ly wol] .7 hope you will use them both and annontate freely in your 

 copy and ultimately rive him the benfit of your notes. " r e a-A me ri can 3 

 must help each other, if we are to nut a stop to this foreign bung- 



