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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 

 DIVISION OF BOTANY, 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



March 18,1895. 



Mr. George E. Davenport, 



Medford, Mass. 

 My dear Mr. Da venport : 



Your postal card and somewhat delayed let- 

 ter have reached me. I thank you very much indeed for your thought- 

 fulness in depositing some of your types in the National Herbarium. 

 We are just now paying particular attention to the best manner of 

 preserving and distinguishing types. I inclose the label that we 

 have, after much study .adopted. I suppose all of the specimens of 

 Mr.Pringle's are duplicates of your types except the specimen of 

 GrayJ_. Your Aspidium specimens No . 1 from Georgetown, Maine , June, 

 1893 and No. 3 from Quincy, Massachusetts , Sep t ember, 1894 are cotypes/ 

 ^yl/ ; No ' 3 which y° u say is from Quincy , Massachusetts, September ,1894 and 

 presumably collected by yourself is not a c6type, but from the type 

 locality. So also I think that No. 4 is not a part of your type. 

 I want to know definitely in regard to this so that I may be able 

 to label definitely and correctly the types. 



