but the blessed country has not lost her mind, 15.fce po-vr starving 
Austria and soldier-ridden tfraa.ee and Italy. .tfhe Swiss took oars 
of German babies, too* and American soldiers. It. does one's soul 
good to breathe the air .of this blessed country. 1 found all 
the missing Hassler collections that, are types of Haokel species. 
; l?hey were "uaioum" and returned to Hassler. I Aid not hare tine 
to go over the Stuekert plants, without labels it would not have 
done much good, • — I wish that we could borrow this whole her bar- 
Iim and pftt It il order, Sh+re are priceless things here but im- 
p'OBBiblo to get at any particular thing t beoauae, t^ou^b it is ..- 
supposed to be arranged generioally, the genera alphabetically, 
there ie no gnessisg where things may be. There is so much here 
one could work a month. It igs like looking for diamonds in an 
ash-heap, it would pay if one had the. time, 'the things that .lez 
has had cen never he straightened .out eiceept by an. agrostologist , 
and nobody could do it as well as we. mould, with m type cards 
and our indexes, and the way wo have things in mind. In so many 
easeo Mez has given one name on the sheet and then published the , 
species under another— the thing La like pied tf:po, and rjuite 
hopeless for anyone not very familiar with grasses to straighten 
out the mess, 1 have mad* notes in the different herbaria so far 
of the names on the sheets of the specimens cited under new specie 
with other names. • .a;. ZZ — I have bought the ticket for Ber 
lin for fhursday, 6 'AO a.m. 1 did not expect to be here so long, 
but it takes a long time hunting things as the herb, is here— the 
grass part, that is. -Br. Brio-act is repeatedly apologetic about 
the grasses, though I assured him % appreciated the olrouastanoeB 
ferns would fare as badly with agrostologiats. He showed me the 
Bogaginaceae and labiates,. in beautiful order, and geographically 
arranged. I went through Aristida for A. longispica, but did not 
find it* 1 started to list all Beaiwois specimens-- that ie tbe 
H Pali sot bb? sbeets, but fotmd it would take too long. I am 
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