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bmn over my head In a»y ease* It urns, cm the oJ?etrietry of ferriemts 
and pigments in plants said ardii&ls* I not n It* \ r ±erliv ^st % vbo it in- 
terested in gr&s es, i:#xt day he caiuo to the kerbarir;- p-tid fe^fBf&t Ms 
papers, a set for each of us. I took "both ond said hortsilictie Dank. I 
saw froft Ms paper lie was interested in cleist.ogany bo X asked if M 
Md seen the oleistogenes in Panthonia , He hadn't so 1 got out eor.e 
American ones and showed Msu He was vory rravh interested. I got out 
Triplasis, "uupopkcrun -vrightii , and &ufel. sii or o sperm and found the 
oleistogenes in all first try. It isn't always that . things " show off" 
when you-iwant then to. I said that I had never fo|*nd cleistogenes in 
any Panthonias outsidethfi u « h J).' prorinoialis is their only species, 
h© said, " ; e got that out and I found woll-developed oleistogane. I 
was delighted, I put it in a packet and aarfeed the place whence taken, 
I aust have tried this in U.S. herb., for I tried to find if hey did 
not exist elsewhere than in the U.S. , when I wrote the last oleistog. 
paper. (Had oleistog. papers sent to Yierhapper ) , also Hitchcock's 
Genera of brasses). He is working on kuropean grasses and anatomy. The 
order 5cllo?#sd in H Genera wo\ild interest hip. He has ideas of his own 
as to generic relationships. He would put Sieglingia decmtbens in 
Aveneae— shouldn't wonder if he is right. All this discussion was en- 
tirely in German i if you please J Friday I was called on to act as inter- 
preter; Br, Kelssler brought a man to me and said he couldn't under- 
stand any German. I asked hesitatingly "Po you epeak Bnglish?" "I 
cahn't speak anything else," he said. He has collected a great deal in 
South Africa and wants to exchange for African plants, W© got into a 
funny nix-up when he asked if we world exchange I told him we would 
he delighted to and that we had a fine lot of American grasses. He 
wanted African and seemed surprised that "iff should have Aoerloan dup- 
licates. X suddenly realised that he thought I belonged here. 3o I 
interpreted between Mm and r. Keiasler, He says that Pr. 3tapf will 
