ftarmonsburg,^f(a., May 2 ,-:, lS'6) 
Mr. /alter Deane, 
you stated that you would write again after hearing from Mr. 
Bicknell x enclose another specimen for name. But if this does not 
reach you until after your letter is written, negyer mind . I feel oretty 
sure 1 am right, and that it is \T i_ol a hasta ta, with oblong cordate 
instead of real hastate leaves. I have never found it in bloom, but 
once found enough of the remains of a flower to assure me that it is 
yellow. As the season advances the thicker texture and dark color of 
leaves ; with whitish (which in time becomes silvery) between the veins 
is to me the most striking feature of the plant. Yet neither Gray nor 
Wood mention this. Is it a characteristic or a local oeculiarity? I 
found it in a deciduous woods,_a space a rod or so square being 
well covered with it, and none beyond in any direction so far as I 
could see,though plent; o ' other v olets. 
I am sorry I put you to so much trouble in regard to Asarura, 
etc. but appreciate the pains y ) k. have taken, I pressed three soe.cimens 
of the maple friut today,_all that I could find. Later I will send 
them, with the mature and autumn leaves. 
Thank you for suggestion as to sending ray notes on Arisaema to 
Gazette. As I got the idea-from the Asa Gray Bulletin I feel that it 
would be only polite to offer them there first. Then if they do not 
want to give them space I will send them to Gazette. I was out again 
today* hound 43 stand, nate and 26 pistillate green ones; 70 staminate 
and 32 pistillate purole ones. So the rule suggested by Torrey does not 
ho^d good. hey averaged much as those of a week ag save that I found 
‘3 small p istillate green ones,_4 o^f which grew it a compact clump 
t. .a were almost hidden by their own leaves. I believe unuounily 
