SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
S. P. LANGLEY 
SECRETARY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
Washington, d. c., March 25, 1901. 
Mr. George E. Davenport , 
67 Fell sway West, 
Medford, Massachusetts. 
Dear Mr. Davenport, 
The photographs of Botrvchium mmicola 
have been duly received, and we thank you sincerely for send¬ 
ing them. They have been mounted on a herbarium sheet and 
have been placed in the Herbarium along with the type specimews. 
I h@se also your postal of the 22d relating to the valid¬ 
ity of celsa as a subspecies of D. goldtana . Until recently 
I doubted the correctness of Mr. Palmer's conclusions, never 
having gone into the matter very carefully. But a short 
time ago he went over his private material very carefully 
with me, and gave me his reasons for so disposing of the 
plant. ( Have you seen his original description? / Since thenj 
however I have been looking pretty carefully at the material pf 
of floridana . Underwood collected what he called the latter 
at Auburn , Alabama, and I presume you have his specimens. 
We 
