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Miami University, DEPARTMENT OF

OXFORD, OHIO BOTANY AND GEOLOGY

October 30 1887
Prof C. E. Bessey
Lincoln, Nebraska
Dear Sir,
In thinking over the names which have been applied to the great classes of plants, and which are now generally accepted, Protophyta, Zygophyta tc. it has seemed to me it might be advisable to apply a similar term to the only class not satisfactorily settled, I mean the Phanogamia. Why not have a term with a similar termination to the others? It seems to me desirable so as to make the nomenclature uniform.