Drbana 
7 December,1918 
Dear Mr.Deane:— 
It is some time since I have heard from you and I trust 
you are well* It occurred to me to write to you and inciden¬ 
tally to show you the work of my new typewriter (though not 
to reveal too much my own incapacity in using it!). It prints 
both Roman characters and also x>iv yXSorcav IXXrjviit^v ##$ and 
I have also a font of Italic letters that I can put on at 
will* It will also print either in black or in red with no 
trouble in making the change from one to the other. I think 
my correspondents will be thankful for the greatea legibility 
of my epistles! 
M.L.P.looked over my plants of this summer whiGh I sent to 
the Herbarium and has written me about some of them.They in¬ 
clude the recent Stenophjllus oagillaris,var.cryptostachys 
from Kezar Lake,Lobell,Me.;typical 8S3fi§£(!13 
Irunella Z2i£.§li:.§ from Lancaster;Myrioghgllum vertigiliatum, 
var.pectinatum and M. alterniflorum_from Northumberland;Ina- 
phalis,var.subalpina from the Great Gulf(the first time in 
the White Mts.);Cynosurus cristatus from Randolph;Oicer 
arietinum from BerlinrEr i ophorum virginioum var.SiESQS album 
which he thinks no good as a variety; Eleogharis olivacea; 
A s t e r lo ngifalius,var.yillicaulis;Panioum magrocargon. He 
aiso reports (what I had suspected might turn out to be case) 
that Salix Peasei has turned out,upon further study by Mr. 
Camillo Schneider to be a remarkable hybrid of S*herb ac ea 
and 
Mr.Trelease has asked me two or three times whether I 
