HZ 
The herbarium is about I the size of ours, 1 should think-^-larger 
(I refer to grasses only) than that of Itunioh*- There is very little 
from Horth Ataeriea. I did not speak of the Dist of B Aaer Grasses. . 
not knowing how you will deeide. I feel confident that in a few 
years he will be the leading asroatologist of Hurope, Grasses will 
pour into Leiden and I would like to put $la very heavily in deb£ 
to U. 3. Ho has two or three sheets of naay ^alansa nuiabers and is 
Mime to pi Ofe out a set for us. 7fIater~T.ee. 192£---:>et of Aner Grasses 
the Hawaiian and British Guiana sets, and a -full set of duplicates 
frosi misc, dupls. were sent to H enrard. He is itjaensely pleased, es- 
pecially over the Aristidas I picked out 'for Meu} He has a rover 
ence for types, the first I've soon in Hurope. He took me to his . , 
bora© Saturday night. Thoy live over his drugstore. • Since he 
leaves before 8 for Leiden and works there till six, X judge he runs 
his drugstore fry proxy. His wife is ever so nico and be. has two 
bright children, Jan 'and Tosa.- worked all Sunday on the type 
fragments and the plants bo had at home for study— that is, all the 
tine Vrouw H earard waw't feeding the family. After germany with , 
no milk for the coffee think of whipped creasa and strawberries . and 
really truly br ead. In the evening we went over to the sea through 
the dunes. I saw *,vm&*i» Asaaopbila arenaria— it does not look like 
ours. It is smaller and the- leaves do not seem to turn over upside 
a own like ours, I saw iilyaus arenarius also, and Plleum arenarium, 
the latter about an inch tall in bloom. It stays light till all 
hours in these parts— it was galy getting dart when we got back at 
10, The walk by the sea was thronged by proaesaders. lots of 
the girls and women* most, in fact, looked like pictures from the 
Geographic IS&gagiae , with their various head dresses, their short 
tis-ht sleeves and vul ominous skirts almost touching the ground. 
They were the first long skirts I've seen in Europe except of those 
