Cryptogamic Botany 



ELIZABETH Q. BRITTON, Editor. 

 Columbia College, New York City. 



June 22d, 1897, 



Hear Tr. 



ennedy , 



yours of the 2oth is here. It la too bad 



to go away on a holiday a/t*Lhave bad weather, it is so much more 

 comfortable at hone. But if you foimd sone good mosses in fruit 

 you will be amply repaid, I think. I have ;ust had T 'r, & *'rs. "rout 

 and Mr, TJ owe ( >T r. trout's College chum who is studying the -epati- 

 cae With ^rcf. Underwood) down here to spend Sunday wit v us, and 

 we lokked o^er the ^oofs of his h. 0, nhes s together and correct 

 ed them for the printer , They are to be in the naxt "emoir of the 

 T,B.C. 1T r. ffrosrt has accepted a position to teach botany in ?rcf. 

 Osborne's family for T uly , and will not be at WiHoughby on the 

 6th & 7th, 1 fear. :-e Is to be at one of the ". TJ . "igh "chools this 

 next winter | and will have considerabl e time for moss- work, I ha ,f e 

 handed, over to him that interesting question as to wheth or fl. cirre 

 sum arid T ' .t i r hy n c h i urn T o mm a s s i n i of Eu. are the same as n . "rande geei 

 and ~"ol oradense of Austin, ^rom a superficial examination, 1 

 t^ink they are. You wi 3 1 find that many continental birryolog ists 

 separate r '-rimmia ri-ml aris from ^ .a _pocarp a, and 1 think correctly. 



"r, Collins found it in T 'aine , and thought at first it was a bcou- 

 leria, and sent ne hi* drawings and specimens, bttt corrected him- 

 self before T had a chance to answer his letter. 7 ha^e + old Mlsa 

 Vail, one of ou>- Torrey Clixb members who is to be /n N*w v nglad 



this summer that you want ' J .E. ' T osse-, and s\e -as promised to got 

 some for you. I think you are entirely too modest about, taking cer- 

 tain genera as yourowon^Hiy dont you take -rimmia, for instance f 

 T ha-c loto of tough knots there in that genus, and quantities of 



material waiting. to be studied 



