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he could have put it into Kriocbloa, Pasp. oastaneuM has bees 
ma©a , bo «fr &«■{• -will be tenable, anyway. 1 had s©arofc«d South 
Amer loan descriptions ©f Pasp for this, tut never thought to 
look Irs Sriochlea. 1 am ha Ting son® surprises, hut the Most 
surprising thing is to find how near nost of my concepts of 
Hackel's species are, to the reality. 1 brought with me a 
few sketches I had mad© fr©» descriptions long ago in order t© 
get an idea of what the species were like. !y sketch of P. 
pianos Is 8 pretty good picture of the type. H»s descriptions 
are certainly good. Axonopus is included in Pasp. , of course. 
Pasp. scoparinm contains a great juwble according to Baoksl , 
and a "bigger Jumble according to hoe. I found type coll, of 
Pa sp iridifoliusi Blpp. (unlike anything we have) referred hy 
its to r: * seopariuw and a second specimen, sa»e collection, 
r»o».cd P.iridifolisn hy hiss, 1 an keeping notes of sob© of 
Mess's worst. Eb«y will have a sweet tine straightening out 
the herbarium after hi». Dr. Z condemns ffi©«'» work most 
strongly— it is a relief Jro my feelings. Hack©l ' s Olaz- 
iOU material is so abundant that I am getting many collections 
besides types. There are more Couth American species than we 
had any idea of. We have a great uany that are not here, too. 
t- m keeping track of the genera wanting here so- that we can 
send them a bit if we have- any to spare. It takes lots of 
time to remount the things I have to loosen. Cowionly a bunch 
of eulvi or two or nor® tufts are fastened down together and 
I KUBt loosen the whole. In remounting I arrange it better, 
so I leaTC a better looking specimen than I found, though I ■ 
hare a whole plant. I am not going to get through here in a 
month. I shall probably never haue -mother chance to work in 
European herbaria , and it takes s© »uoh time and n@n®T for th© 
