
          I shall probably report to you, then
more definitively as to the accessions.
Thanks to for your hint aa to Prof.
Eaton. I am hoping, some day to see 
him in N. Haven [New Haven] & compare notes.
Towards the end of August I spent
a day or two in Hunter in the center of
the Catskill group of Mts. A tramp
through "Stony Clove", a deep gorge which
was from N.E.T. S.W., [crossed out: connecting] affording 
a road from HUnter into the town of
Phenicia. I was [agreeable?] surpised to
find Aspidium aculeatum var. Braunii
growing there in great abundance, I am
not aware that it has before noticed
[added: (in our country)] further south than Green Mts. or Adirondacks.
I had the pleasure of collecting the same
fern in June in the notch of Mt. Mansfield VI,
a deep glen, very simlar to Stony Clove, in  its character.
I forget wheether I have [added: before] spoken to 
you of my visit to Mt. Mansfield in

        