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355 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Mass. 
December IE, 1922. 
My dear to. Powell: 
Yours of the third arrived at noon. 
Taking your letter in the order of its contents I have 
the following to say: 
Schedulee Orchidianae ought to fill a need in our 
botanical papers. I hope to include in it, from time to 
time, the good things that your energy and interest 
£ '! 
bring to my attention. The second number is being made 
ready for press now. It will include a good plate of 
Sel enipedium c hica with to. Powell standing beside a 
diagrammatic plant. 
.Bpi den drum ramonense Beichb.f. In spite of the 
popular belief that those who special!so in a group arc 
omniscient, different minds interpret similar data in 
dissimilar ways. Different eyes see differently. Hop/ 
Rolfe could not have known Bpidendrum ramonense, because, 
if my memory is good, there is no material at hew. I 
am not sure that Schlechter had material, but, having 
seem the Berlin representation of the genus I am not 
surprised that he should have had difficulty in determ¬ 
ining your material. 
