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JAMES C. NELSON, PRINCIPAL 
5J1 B. Cottage St. 
Dec. 1, 1922 
Dear Mr. Deane • 
i am very glad to know that you sent my grass-specimens to Mrs. 
Chase for confirmation, and of course pleased that she found but one error. 
I am beginning to feel that F anicularia occidental! $.like a good many of 
Piper's new species, is rather elusive.Hfoat Mrs, Chase calls Glyceria 
fluitans is listed in Piper & Beattie's FI. K. W. Coast 59 aS Panicularia 
leptostachya (Buckl.) Piper n. comb. a r idently based on G lyceria leptostachy a. 
Buckl. Proc. Acad. Phi la. 1£>62:95* it would seem to me that this is 
antedated by Festuca fluitans L. Sp. PI. 1 : 75 . 1753> end that the two 
are substantially identical. 
I hope you will confirm my sedges also. I usually depend on Mr. Mackenzie for 
these. 
Indeed I should make it a point to call upon you if ever in Cambridge. 
I have heard of you often as an enthusiastic patron of botany, and the 
younger men all appear to regard you es a mentor and Maecenas. Harold St. John 
tells me that your picture looks down upon him from his desk, and is a con¬ 
stant source of inspiration. I wish we had a few like you in Oregoh/ 
Very sincerely yours, 
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