folia from federal District was the last we have heard from Mm 
I VaKli Apparently it was understood that Faciei was t® keep the 
grasses. The earlier Philippi grasses are in Vienna. Philippi 
P'i a German, his notes are in German, and he seems to hare Bent 
grasnes t® Vienna before Haokel's time. It may' have b< en that he 
wanted his herh to go to Vienna. I with we could hare got them. I 
am p-lad Piper borrowed them when he did. I indexed and distributed 
the fragments only last year-r-thoy were segregated in one of those 
little cases Piper had made. I have learned two reasons why I 
did not find all Shekel's -cited types, as we call them, hut which 
d© net seem to have so much significance with him. 1; I asked about 
the missing Stuckert grasses. At first he seesed a bit anxious 
and then said "Oh, but you say you found other collections of the 
same thins?" "Yes." "Oh, then it can be that I gave them away, 
I did not care to "keep so many. " 2: Hehmann and Manyharth Afri- 
can grasses: Sometimes there was only one specimen, which he re- 
turned, keeping sometimes a few ppikelete or a fragment. He 
had #Lv®» Bearerd (who se-ms to ha a very dear friend) his collec- 
tion of spikeletsj A third reason I discovered myself (I did not 
ask him about this) near the end of my work in Vienna. When Hackel 
changed his mind about what species a thing was a variety of he 
wrote the new combination f published or not) on a slip and pasted 
it down over the original . 1 found two types in Festuoa by 
holding the label to the light and finding what was underneath. 
What a lack ©f reverence for types! He did not always do that, 
fortunately. I found many changes on the earns label. But proba- 
bly some of the varieties I cemia not find in AndropOffOB Sorghum 
smbep. Hole pens Is var ooand so subvar. etwas anderas , and in Agros- 
tis, may have been becan.se t did not notice double-pasted labels. 
A frreat man? labels, not lqppes> were so pasted. I ffUott it is 
what he would have done with all idt he had had the time, f&i 
