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(Over.)

Topeka, Kan.
Sept. 29, 1885.

Prof. C. E. Bessey,
Dean Univ. Nebraska,
Dear Sir,

I shall esteem
it a favor if you can communicate
to me the name of the
enclosed plant. It grows abundantly
in the "old channel" lakes (sandy
bedded) of S. central Kansas. This
specimen came from near Sun
City, Barbour Co.

If you are not familiar with
the species, even the name of the genus will
be acceptable.

I expect to issue Bulletin
4 Washb. Lab. Nat. Hist. in October.

It will be mainly zoological
in its contents; but will include a
third contribution to Kansas mosses, and
a few miscellaneous botanical notes.

Cordially yours — F. W. [Cragin?].