June 4 th, 1923. 
By dear Mr* Powell: 
Yours letters of Kay 20, 22 & 23 are 'before me, 
I found these when I went to my Boston laboratory this afternoon, I 
also found a package of most welcome specimens and several contain¬ 
ers with alcoholic material for study* I did not boil up the only 
flower of 282 as I felt sure that it must be ZLauratliallia nr letInn 
Ames, a species described in Sched. Oroh, 4, It is strange that this 
rare species should turn up in two collections received within two 
months* It would indicate that the Chlriqui flora merges with that 
Oi. Cartage, Costa Elea, I must delay a report on the other specimens 
as I am a bit on the down side of health and will not return to Bos¬ 
ton until late in the week* 
nlanlense muddle© has already 
been cleaned up and an erratum slip weflt to you several days ago, I 
find that- error is lurking near the ran who attempts to hasten his 
scientific work. You must realise that the recent Sched, Orchs, were 
prepared under pressure, !7o, 5 comes off the press to-morrow. 
Your reference to F. Sander and Haadevai 1. la T,iv> 
interests me. But your surmise must be wrong. Years ago 
Hr, j?‘* Sander too : ajfancy to me and one day at his nursery in St, 
Albans presented me with his herbarium* Zraenslin has assured me that 
the original Roezl flowers are in the Reiohenbaoh Herbarium, but /that 
they are worthless because poorly preserved. Anyway the problem is 
solved. Unless you really wish it, I will not send a specimen to the 
Sander nursery as the old gentleman is dead and as his sons won Id 
have no memory of Roezl&s plant. 
