®0XttmWit mnimtBit^ in XM mtn of W^tvo "^oxU 



DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY 



18 October? 1896 



I 



My dear Davenport -j 



I am sorry to inform yoii that I had mislaid yoiir package and 



In my very busjr time getting settled in ray new home have not found it 



until today, I shall take my first Oi^portunity to look over the Isoetes 



and report. I will soon have an article on Alabama ferns in the Gazett 



in which I shall separate specifically the form of Botrychium ternatun 



(if it is ternabiam) that Mlchaux described as Botrypus lunar ioides 



and more fully withal 



but which Lamarck had already described earlier as Osmunda biternata, 



A 



I have just gotten in some material representing the Japanese HBSH 

 species from v/hich Thunberg described and figured the origixial ternatum 

 and I begin to think that Prantl was right in sep^ating our eastern 

 species from that one — ^the only one that has examined the group orltl- 

 callys' I shall separate a Mexican form also and yesterday I found for 

 the second time a form here that I never saw growing before that Ihey 

 have be calling var, dissectum but it is entirely different troia the 

 diccectum ihatr l have always gafciered in Connecticut. What is the hab- 

 it of the species in Eastern Massachusetts?. In Conn, it alvrays fre- 

 quen'ts grassy pastvc?es in o^en places and I gatiiered quanti"tries of if 

 along "^e roadside and in ceraetsaries where ihere had been no plow for 

 many years. The same is true of the plantr in New York. Here and in Ala- 

 bojiia the si-ecies never grow&'_ln jjie open butr is found in vroods and usual 

 ly rather damp ones at -(^latrs- 



I am getting grea'Hy interesTed in the group and you may look 

 for sorae radical moves in Lhe future fio I shall no-^be more so t^an 



