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Above timber line ^.rasses were ab-untiant, Tlie outs along the trail 
below also yielded a fine Mrvest* 
.Early in ifebniary, tomtrd tiie end of the rainy seasmt I went 
to l.inas Geraes, Here 1 got into tm ♦'oampos," open or brushy grasslands 
covering the high hills. I visited Juiz de ifdra, Barbaoena, Lavras, 
Oliveira, Bello Hori^sonte, Lagoa Saaita, aid Serra ao Cipd, Ouro Preto, 
a'lxL Itacoluntf, in the cainpo oountry and ¥i$osa, Uerm da Gransna and 
Serra do Gaparad in the sona da mtta, or wooded country t Ehe oaaipo 
country mks e:^ceedingly rich in grasses. Many supposedly rare species 
I f oand to oe coimnon. 
I tooli with ine a coapiled list of grasses joiown from- Brasil. luiera 
are some 1100 species in this list* I found about 500 species, soiaa 
being hitherto unJcnown from Brazil and scBie, 1 tmnk, undescribed. 
ahen six months in one small comer of Brazil yields so large a number 
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to cover more of the country. 
