The *«rarri Hot*! , 12:5 W. 4-4th ST/ 



De r Dr. Kennedy, 



] enclose a few specimens of Ophioglossum 

 vulgatum, var oblongif olium ( Mutt.) which Dr , Ruaby collected at 

 Willoughby Mofeeh, for your N.E. Botanical club collection of which 

 ] see by the circular you are one of the curators of the Cryptogams 

 collections. We have not received except indirectly any notice of 

 the organization of your club nor a copy of your new journal, which 

 *jtrof. K no wit on tells me you are about to start. ] am very much in- 

 terested and think just such ooopera'ion according to sections will 

 do more to give us a t v orou-h knowledge of the flora of fha country 

 than anything els* that can be done. It is .iust what 1 have been 

 preaching for years, l ocal ^work coordinated /. Mr. T)ave v i p6rt told 

 me that he was to read a p;|er on Oynh iogljureum before your club this 

 winter, but did not tell me whit he was gjjs-ung to say about the 

 new species described by me It would be an excellent thing to brigJ 

 together notes arid sjjecimens from all your N p. localities,! hear that" 

 Mti K l vah A. R--> t on has specimens from the sand near the sea-shore 

 at ^ewburyport , ,,ass. which ] should much like to see. Of Qc urse 

 the differences in Or vulgatum are so nume r ous , tha t it is difficult", 

 to draw .ape c if i c lines, butn&$<«i if they are only of "arietal value 

 the differences are sujhch, that several well-maki^ed and more or 

 less constant forms can he designated. This one Mattel has indica- 

 ted in his herbarium by name, as oblongifolium an ,-ef € .• ed to in 

 his genera, .on will also find some reference to it in "Brtimf icld » s 

 T " 1 o r a -"-e c t c ns i s Y o 1 1 r s t. rr>: 



