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17 7otouai*y 19o2 

 M.7 dear LCp. Davonport, 



yo3» I vaa the guilt.y one who sent you a little of Adian- 

 tum mofiestun ITon the original locality t>ut Professor Karle reports that 

 it did not appear to be as thrifty as the year before. I also incWed 

 a plant of Schaffncr's original collection of Al«uritopt©ris schaffneri 

 Fourn. thlriliiug it night be of interest. We have the herbarium of 

 Schaffnor t150ia '/igener, recently obtained in Eiirope. 



Where have I lapsed from Botrychium tenebrosum as you say I K 

 have in the last Pern Bulletin^ It was news to no. in fact I have boon 

 for oone tine on the point of asking you if you over had any doubts 

 on the corroct determination of the plant you called B. Lunar ia collec- 

 ted by Mrs. lUist and others near Syracuse? I have coiiocted any quant i- 



r 



ty of B. Lunarla in Kurope and have never seen any like that from Syracu- 

 se TThlch I have also seen in the living state. 



I do not suppose that you can even expect that I shall let your 

 recent rork on the Aspidioae in nhodora pass unchallenged* If you had 

 searched the whole history of fern literature with a fine tooth comb 

 you could not have hauled up a more horrible example of an lil-shapen 

 Indefinitely* formed genus than Nephrodiura and I cannot understand how 

 such statements as that it has been in constant use for the past hun- 



