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Iowa Agricultural College,
Ames.

Department of Botany,
May 15 1885

Dear Professor Bessey:

I inclose
some specimens of what I take
to be Veronica perigrona
upon which a cystopus is
growing. I do not find that
this plant has been recorded as
the host of a cystopus If
you say that the fungus is new
as far as the [?] is concerned
I will see about working the
matter farther. I feel almost
duty bound to send any new
or to me new, thing to Dr. Farlow
that comes in the Pronosporeae.
But he is away and if you
say the host is on the list
already I will let the matter
drop. Otherwise I ought to gather
may [strains?] and have the
subject worked up.

Yours in haste
Byron D. Halsted