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At Paris I saw M.Baillon and with his guidance was able to rescue thf 

 types of Fournier's Mexican ferns froin the obscurity of an cittic in the 

 herbarium. They are not distributed in the general herbarium but were 

 with Schaffner'B origiiial bundles in the "Mexican room". After searchX— 

 ing through several large bundles of Schaffners plants , grasses and othe^ 

 flowering plants juranounted and in their original papers — I found Four- 

 nier's ferns scattered along here and there with other things and all 



named in Fournier's own labels. Aleur itopteris Schaffneri v/as among 

 them and is exactly like mine. So we are all right on Seaton's species. 



I shall have a paper on XKHaFournier ' s other species as soon as I 

 can get the time. I have a fronfl of A. Schaffneri XX from the type. 



Baker was not at Kew, but l^aw Hemsley and others^^^^^ went throu©^ 

 all the fern-allies and many groups of our ferns, notably^^ Cheilanthes, 

 Pellaea,Woodsia etc. It makes me tired to see Baker's disposition of XiS 

 some of our species. We have deferred altogether too much to Kew m KSg 

 regard to our own plantslli Your collection or mine contain a vastly 

 better sjepresentation of our species than they have there. Aiad if their 



