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 dred years ( in just the ^o.y you say it ) can be construed other than as 

 an attempt to aislead those T?ho have not the means for knov^ing the fact^ 

 as yoii have at their disposal (and in many cases not the ability were 

 the means present). You knov just as veil as I do that Ilephrodium in 

 3fe^8cf8i§«> it ^as never been taken up for the free veined 



styocios. Bub I am at work at a historic reviov of the subject and 

 shall endeavor to show up your fallacies in the light of the "great 

 authorities" on whoso work you and I soem to differ quite mQterialiy- 

 Is it a case U wonder where familiarity breeds contempt? 



Bearing on the slam you gave me in the October Pern Bulletin over 

 poor Maxon's head and the extended facilities the flenaan and other con- 

 tinental botanists have for reaching adequate conclusions on American 

 ferns, I happened to come across the notes I made at the Berlin herbai?- 

 iua in 1898. Tlxis 4s you know is the most extensive fern collection 



on the continent (containing the collections of Wiilldenow, Uettenj^lus^ 



Kuhn among others) and larger even than that of Fee which I saw at 



Paris In 1900 , The Berlin collection had not a single p4ant of 



what you call B.natricariaefoliua from America and only one B.lanceola 



turn and that from Greenland ii I think if you could go through some of 



the collect ions of the Oerman worthies you would be more chary of how 

 you made remarks that to those familiar with the facts are to say the 

 licrous. j^^-i^-j^^^ n^n.^ -^Pi^pc^ Q 



least ludic 



