Cryptogamic Botany 

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ELIZABETH Q. BRITTON, r — 

 Columbia College, New York City. 



"ear '"r. ^ennedy, 



I too have been iri "'ashing ton, from the 

 loth to the 7 7th of „ „ay , and had a Tood tine "'e had a "ot a*'i cal 



icnic out at nab in T ohn ''ridge, and f c'nd 7>n ki nds of osses, none 

 rare however. J hope yon will look into the question o ^ that 'a- 

 phidostegium. 'Hid 7 tell -on that just before ! left for ^'aJhi^gton, 

 we r> chived the type from j^ew of "laopodinn laxifol I&jo, and that 

 T 'r, j^est , 'r. >rout and I arc agreed that it is fcfta sane as P-t^sl^ 

 chythecium reflexu m, Which is 5 years older, The leaves are not pa- 

 pillose . I hn^e also received from $erlin the 1. ype s of ridel's 



OXyelad on and ' ". attcnuat un, ( --an. n , 474} and r, ''rout is at 

 then now for the completion of his thesis, 7 ha ,r e also given my 



dirorKhack lecture twice, nnd sho'Wi my mosses to the T 'rookJn insti- 

 tute ^and the Torney ^'ub, and they all expressed t'-emsel^es as 



n&tv pl eas ed _ 7 ha^e 27 rare ones, r md "r. "rout is f'oin" to run a 

 race with me in "Vermont. I eaxpect , though that you and T 'r, "axon 

 can beat us both in ' t H« and "ass. T have also received quite r re- 

 cently Ana camp to do n s pl ahnoide s from >T r, T . Tanklin 'oil ins <?f 

 'frown Univ. collected in -.a inc. ,T e draws nicely and is a careful 

 student, nnd I V-.ink you will find a correspondence with him and 

 an exchange profitable, 7 still con' inue to en ; oy my "ixon, and have 

 had a nice series 0? letters and specimens fro |^ him. *-e quite agrees 

 withme that Phyg comit ri um turbihatum is not the same as the "'ritish 

 P. pyriforme j -.ardot notwithstanding ."he second •"•olme of the lllus- 

 • trated fl ora is ready and 4oo electros r£ady for the 3d. The pisbli$| 

 ers report 4oool| eopLe- sol-, more than enourh to cc-'sr a7 1 expen- 

 sen of drawings, etc. -our, sincerely f!j^dVtfc^d * W/Vw — 



