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oeivin"! grasses from those South. Americans, Jurgans and th® rest. 
Sodiro's specimens ar® miserable, like Brother Claudes, hut Jur- 
gens ar® excellent, so ar® Bertoni's. Sodiro's labels show that 
he is S.J. (a Jesuit priest). We must try to get an exchange ":;itli 
Univ. of Zurich. Lots ©f Haokel's African passes ar® on their 
lah@l f and I surmise that some of the missing African' types ar® 
in Zurich. Please send one ®f my copies of your Genera ®f 
Amer Grasses to Dr. Rudolf Wagner, Wien I, latioaalbibliothok. 
When. I get hack I am going to get son© copies from th® Govt 
Minting office and send them to Europe. They can't huy things 
in foreign countries with their no-account raon®y. Dr. Wagner is 
rery anxious to get seeds ®f Munroa s^uarrosa to grow some plants 
for study. He has found something remarkable in the anatomy of 
its leaves. I told him that you had redisoribed* its inflores- 
ceno® — it had been misunderstood. That is why I promised hira 
your Genera. ff!fr§ » # » We are going t® hear Barsifal- Saturday night. 
I have been reading it in German nights — tough reading. I see 
so many fin® things from Buehtica. I am so glad that w® hay® 
bought his herbarium. Easter Sunday. — I did not work today. - 
Wo all went up the Leopoldberg and Kahlenberg, high hills on th® 
Danube. On clear days I hay® ho en seeing the Xahleaberg from the 
Herbarium windows. -Poa annua is the only grass out yet. For- 
sythia is Just at its best — that will give you a standard to 
measure by, mor® than a month later than Washington. This is 
th© first warm day w® have had— a glorious day. W« left right 
after breakfast, taking our lunch of rye bread and sausage with 
us. Hepatioo fit _is different from ours ) , Anemone nemorosa, 
th® little grape hyacinth (forget 'it 8 name) were out, and num- 
berless Ranunculus sp. There was a thorny Crataegus not otite 
in bloom and what I think is wild cherry of some sort on th® 
