stand next time. 4nyhow , I had hot wat«r and might? gfodd meals. After 
the war countries Swiss prices seem very high* Swiss money has not de- 
preciated. That ought to he a pacifist argvmont with people to whom 
slaughter of jovng men is of no consequence. Say SI,- -I re* 
celved a letter from Dr. Jlassler here, saying that he had left the set 
for U. 3. with Chodat at the University. I am sending the letter after 
copying most of It to tend to Dr. Brie net, ho cause he was so anxietis to 
know how Basaler is. I also send letters from ;:> rof and Iran Hack el , — 
Olyra sympoSiea is Had ilia l-ifonrds. There is a single fertile aula on . 
the specimen here. 3)5.11 must have he m* seeing things"' when he wrote all 
that shout the sympodtura. And that misleading name will have to rerit'ee 
the apt one of hi f orals. I showed It to "dlger. Ho could rot guess 
what rail meant either. Fa said M3.fi work on 21, Eras, was not very 
good.— I am not finding all lies types here, hut I find a good many, 
I am making note of some of hie worst mixtures. rhpy may help us and 
others some time to straighten out He cuddles. Pr. Schneider says >3n- 
gler is responsible for sending the grasses to Ilea, Poor filgor looks 
pained at the mention of M*is. less is nothing short of a calamity- -it 
will he endless work to straighten up the herbarium after him, to say 
nothing of his -ouhlioation. Sum .Sei spiel: Srioohlee pacified is 
published with 6 specimens cited, I find 2 of these marked "pacifica'' by 
lea, 2 more hSr&ochloa Kunroijaez , no v. sp. ;| end the others something 
else. Ourtisa 3600* type of 21. dehilis >*es is so named in mm scrip*. 
A duplicate ( exactly the same, I went hack and compared } ia named E • 
long! folia 7as.' r in Eez script. ::r. silgor thinks Moss must have had 
Petrograd grasses. I wish I could go on to fotrograd. You cleaned up 
Srinius there, but if less has had their rich material it will need 
another cleaning up, I hold my tongue about what I think of "lea's 
work, of course. Sunday evening fraud ain Schneider aaiu I went to 
hear Margarethe (fuust). It was wonderfully fine , and cost me about 
45 cents for both of us in the parquet.— 1 got lost in the sub**y 
