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his whda you come to Europe* I T7ent through "?illdexow Pasp-lums to- 
day aisd saw ?. parviflorum from Porto Rico. It ie the same as we 
have called that t so that uncertainty is Battled* J should thials: 
the ?asp here suet he the Pltigse types. You did mot find Pasp 
fili forme in Swart 2 herb., so it says in your "Types of Amer brasses 
I have found 5 so laaiped hy Swart $ , ixi "Deles art . Berlin a»d W'illd. 
(Great regard those old timers had for types! } All three are ?. 
leptocauloB lash. laa't that tragic I If Smrt z mentions wri^l-rle s 
in his spilrelets vie mm maintain the laaie for the species that has . 
Win called fili forme by everyone, if not 1 should think it would 
have to go on leptooauloa. (Later — 1 1 ve looked up Starart2 descrip- 
tion and it fits this 1 opto caul on hetter than it does the so called 
:fiii forme — bo mention of wrinlrles, either. }~»-I)r Urban is bade. I 
went in to see him. He was ever so Bice and it freut him my ICexmen 
m lerBem* (fMm^t ho a wonderful heard! ) He relieved my feelings 
by saying severe thirds ah out mm* 1 thought 1 might find some Mez" 
types ii the Urban herb, hut T>r. Urban says that Me 55 has not had his 
plants educe we had them and that he wa'i» f t geixg to get them — or 
the (Jerman eq,ulvale®t # They are gtJjig to have a sweet time cleaning 
up after Mwz In the herbaria he has borrowed, I have taken a lot of 
motes. n ere ie o:§e of the fuimiest t for ome patronised by angler, 
the father of the code; Mess does not recognize Hyrae»ach»e 
and SacoiolepiB as distinct; they are one genua to him as they were 
to some of the early authors (Hymen amplexicaulis and 3ac vilvoides 
are one species to him in some cases. ) But he used the name Saccio- 
leois Hash for the genus (has published several species under it) 
instead of Hymeaaehit* %auv. t which has nearly 100 years priority ; 
if the two ate congeneric I Thank-yen- im^mmMm^ news-abeut - the~ 
®w%mm«™* 1 malmtaii a discreet silence about what 1 thinlc of lies. 
i 1 rauleiB tharuh the other day asked me what 1 said darttber (Ilea's • 
