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Stuckart plants I shall look for elsewhere. Ha did net recall who 
he gave them to. His herb wnt to Vienna in 1916, so it was before 
that. I hope Howard got some, The spikelet collection I can see 
at Leiden. Besides these three causes of missing types there is a 
fourth that is -wholly my fault I as hoping there were net many 
types, I took so many fragments from ether things. I soiaehow lost 
on© package ©f envelopes, those obtained last Sunday, lech day's 
crop ef envelopes I took in my brief! case to my room and put them in 
a drawer of the desk. Ifce only reason I know I lost any is that I 
had bought lit tie envelopes and that Sunday I used them forihe first 
time, for -little fragments. When I arranged the envelopes for pack- 
fag I missed the little ones', ? I was panic stricken , of course and 
SufforoA tortures of .anxiety. I have so often had "fits" only to 
find what I had lost. I even, found the thread 1 had bought for Frau 
Hacked after baying a new supply in Tienna, I recall hunting for 
Festuoa ovina varieties and doing some Bromus that mora.tnr;. I hope 
there was nothing wo particularly need. Host of the .American grasses 
went on shoots, but unless old world materiel was ample I took frag- v 
MOnta only. It was a distressing come-down after all my exultation— :' 
and I had a blinding headache for two. days in consecaanoe. I would \ 
have had to oho ok over everything, sheets and envelopes, to find out 
what I had lost and I had already written Prof. Hackol Iwas coming on 
Thursday. I try not to think about it now— I shall nevor ret over 
bein^ mad at myself .about it. -I worked from before 8 till nearly 7 
'Monday and Tuesday so that I could pack Wednesday, I tied the bun- 
dles first with tape and the dlener said he would put then in boards -jf 
and wrap them. I had bought large sheets of stout wrapping paper — 
more sub si at on oo, She diener will take then to the Smithsonian Sx. 
fhis left me the aftemooi of Wednesday so I went' over the unbestimmt 
and named about 5/6 of it to tho genus, end a good deal of the America 
to the s-oecies also. I forad a second specimen of Odontelytrum abys- 
