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My de$r Deane* 
I ought to have answered you long ago. We have all been very 
busy and would like a + few more assistants here. I have nothing to do 
with the Bulletin or had not until now I have a subordinate place on 
the th^ng because someone had to go on* I gave you® two dollars to Brit 
toi\ had him check off the Memoirs and instructed him to send you the 
part on Physalis. I asked him to-day if he had sent it and he was uncer¬ 
tain and wanted me to ask you if you had received it* I sudpect he 
him 
has not sent + it but you must forgive^for the man has been simply jammed 
in a corner for work and has all and more than he can do* In case 
you have not the part yet let me know and I will personally see to it 
that you have it* 
Small is hard at work on mostly Southern things but now and then 
strikes a series of things from the north* Bicknell did a nice bit of 
work on Agrimonia I am thinking• He seems a very clear cut fellow tho I 
do not see a great deal of hintt I was surprised to look over the 
genus Prunus in Britton's flora and find that there were just twice as 
many species as in the last edition of Gray's Manual. Two of these are 
naturalized and the rest genuine bona fide species that have for the 
grester part been described since the Manual was issued^ By the time 
that flora is done you will have to increase your herbarium to cover 
the range of Gray's manual* It is not strange that so soon as they 
commence to work critically on the local flora that new things turn up 
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