I am returning other Bolle they should have been sent long ago but I felt you would have let me know if you wanted them. I am retaining the new species until put held it definitely is not Hellerianus Some of the packets were in very small quantities or in a few cases where I could not find what looked like Hellerianus with a lens I left them alone nearly all flowers have been examined. You will find notes on some of the packets not enough to describe. The two European plants Persica & Arvensis I have picked out from this from thin in small packets I have used them largely for reference along with Macreer. 1241. 88 Haynes doubt but I should say definitely is not Hellerianus while it is off type I think it may be put under 5 minutes. It is off type, but 5 minutes is a very variable species, as metres var. exsulcata while another new var. of this from New Territories ought to be put notes. These two packets of Victorini seem practically all fasciculata No 10 I found the Hellerianus, No 2; a few stems On 92. 88 Haynes tell G.P.S. no Hellerianus seen but there is a plant new to science. The underside separate from Sphenotinus or Diplodiphylum, it seems to come under Leptea perhaps nearest to Humosa but not very near at least all not inside. I have picked out a few stems & sent to Miss Wayne & must try to separate out a few again, I here seems to be no ferarity but as there is only one I have undisturbed. It may not be the new species as its packet is mixed. Went again over the packet trying out the plant with the red gemmae. The plants I examined would seem to come near L. heteroclita but I found no clear in all the gemmae are round or irregular & are distinctly reddish so I put the material back again having failed to find the plant I wanted in the part I examined, & being very uncertain as to my just what the plant I examined was. I would with considerable hesitation call it Heteroclita forma. Longiters has somewhat the same form & recurrence of leaf but my material is rather greenish than brown & here again the gemmae don't seem to fit into the part of m I agrees with longiters. I was under the impression I had a letter of yours unanswered but I cannot find it among my unanswered correspondence. I see from some of your printed material that you have kept yourself very busy, but the tricky Legume group are almost unrepresented in Canada in the West, so the paper does not make a direct appeal while the treatment of three months must have been an exhaustive one ppg 1-51. I take it to be a distinct genus. Thank you for the opportunity & privilege of examining the herbarium material of S Hellerianus it helped clear up the field of relationship. Were you ever able to go over the wooden material & compare with C collections? It seemed sufficiently different to leave doubts as to its being that species. A most unpleasant winter here still helps neither work nor study, but we have to take it. Cincinnati is at least warmer than they have their trouble with floods sometimes something that never touches the prairies. The man seems to be stretching its hands widely taking in botanists also & one misses them. Yet one would hardly wish it otherwise until the war is over our finished. God grant there is sufficient motion & unselfishness to make a lasting peace possible.