morning. 1 am taking Saturday on leave to visit 31ise, my French orphan, 
I reach Basas at 10 l Saturday and leave Sunday evening, reaching Paris 
at 8 Monday morning, ready for work, That is what ray anticipated week's 
leave in Paris is reduced to. .--Resumed in train at Bordeaux after cafe 
complet in the "buffet for fr.2.25, as much as it would cost in Wash- 
ington for such better. I think the prices in France are Justabout equal 
to U. S. prices today. After Austria , Italy and "ermany it seen© awfully 
high. I struck a reasonable hotel in Paris, Hotel Pas de Calais. For 
a room, small but clean and a good bed, with petit de^uner (t»es petit/ 
and dinner at night it is about $2 a day. I gave up the room and left 
my baggage till Monday. I shall not have any anxiety about money now. 
1 was a bit worried lest I'd have to p»y#4 a day or so. I hope I shall 
strike something reasonable in London. — Going. —Langan, where 1 wait 
an hour for train for -°azas. This is like traveling in lorth Sarolina. 
I wrote you about a lot of things %nrard and I agreed about. I forgot 
the things w® didn't. He said we had the wrong idea of Paspalum aureus 
H.B.K. The figure showed the spikelets i versed. I explained that HBK 
transferred *eauvois' Axonopus aureus (in which the spikelets are not 
immersed), that the name , therefore goes with the Beauvois species, 
regardless of what plant HBK had and described. It took some time 
to make it clear and he didn't agree then. But before I left I noted 
he was using my term "misapplication of" a name. His difficulty id 
that with aureus included in %spalum he wants to apply the name as 
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HBK did 'and so welll described and figured. I mentioned several other 
cases of misapplication. To my surprise he spoke of Pennisetum glaucum, 
and agrees that, though unfortunate, that must be the name for pearl 
millet. I am glad that paper of mine which took so much time, is »e% 
waste convincing a few— you recall Thellung's review, which said that 
unfortunate as it was, Frau Chase had shown conclusively etc.... The 
herbarium arrangement at Leiden is according to tew Index, amended. 
Henrard has a copy out and pasted in large ledger volumes so spaced as 
