©jodMmMa WinivRvsitvi in the (S>itvi of WioxU 



Department of Botany 



I am net sxxre @t s®me af the points you have made In the paper re- 

 cently published in thelj^ern Bullejlin but shall g« •vea? the data 

 very soon. I have traced the date •f B>trychim ne^lectiaa Wood back 

 to 1847 and am not quite sure that I have yet gotten it back to the 

 mmdation as it was not there even noted as a "sp.nov.- It may even 

 antedate Braun's name anyway. 



I hope this spring finds you well and that you ^111 find it 

 possible to come down to New YorX and see us. I have now gotten 

 the ferns in a single s^ies in a room by theiOelves. It is lite- 

 rally tVJj^^t^^tm^Tax^ material we have a finer representa- 

 tion Of ferns that they have at both Bei^Un and Kew put togeth^- 

 and yet last s^ui^er u^ban witfjcharacteristio conceit of the Gecrman 



