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Department of Botany 



I had a very pleasant tiiae at Kew tliisfflOffl summer and saw a little of 

 MP. BaKer the dear old man who comes rarely to the Herbariiim, the he 

 is much yo\inger than Sir Joseph who comes there quite regularly every 

 few days. He is siich a kindly man that one can almost forgive him for 

 the wretched mixing process that he has been carrying on at Kew du- 

 ring the past quarter of a century. Peliaea cora^ta, intermedia^ and 

 flexuosa are still in the same cover there in spite of your extended 

 notes which are contained in the collection. They have at last separat*' 

 ed Notholaena Scha^er ilfrom the three species in two genera with which 

 it vras formerly scattered, lir. Baker has duplicated two of our western 

 species among his recent descriptions i.e. those of the past ten years 

 by unnecessary redescript ion. The collection is still the most exten- 

 sive of any but in some genera is in a bad muddle of species. I had 

 the pleasure of seeing the Cosson collection in Paris containing the 

 Fde types in excellent preservation and condition. I had had difficulty 

 before in finding thej^ whereabo\its^ •*5W#9i»». 



I hope you v.aii be able to get down here before long . The time was so 

 short and so crowded when you were here that I was able to see little of 

 you. I hope to go to Washington and Baltimore during the holidays to ijy 

 see the Donnell Smith and national collections. ^, 



