(S>oXnmM«. Uttiucwstts tti tht &itvi of g^jew Ifoicfe 



Department of Botany 



1 May 1906 



My dear Mr, Davenport, \ 



I am sending you a reprint of my Xast paper on the additions 

 to the ferns of America since 1900. It seems a long long list but 

 I have only admitted those I feel absolutely sure of except in the 

 genus Iseetes that I do not pretend to knsv anything^ about. Vou will 

 notice in a marked paragraph that I renounce the varietal status, the 

 only thing the neo-awericans gave up by vay of compa?omise at the Vienna 

 conference when your side gave up the Ketr rule . I have never been In 

 sympathy with the varietal matter anyway arid have consistently^ I thinlc^ 

 opposed it with my brethren. In fact it only passed by a majority vote 

 of one at the Philadelphia conference, A-^*^ a^^j^t A**^ 



