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seasonal, change in the flora. One of the striking grasses was a tall 
Paniciiin with large purple panicle—a bunch grass^ ^only found in cle fts 
of rocks. I have never seen this in any herbari iim and did not find it 
again in Brazil. Martius couldnH have missed it if it had been in 
bloom. 
I visited various interesting places in Minas and Sao Paulo^ Lavras, 
Sao Miguel^ Pocos de CaMas, Casa Braneo^ where I vms glad to see Auxlcarias 
again 
[Slide 3» Aii^caria] 
A hillside of these trees looks like a pieee of tapestry^ the regularity 
appears^conventionalized. 
Tres Lagoas^near Rio Parana, was the first stop in Matto Grosso» 
Except out at Cabo Frio this was the first level ground struck. The 
hills of Matto Grosso are mostly low table lands the whole sloping down 
gently to Rio Paraguay. I had Z days at Tres Lagoas, £ at Gampo Grand^ half 
way across the state and then went south to Dourados on the caminao carrying 
the household goods of the Maxwells, missionaries to the Indians there, 
from Gampo Grande south it is mostly open campo interspersed with cerrado — 
brushy woods of low gnarled trees, sometimes almost as dense as chaparral 
sometimes open* 
[Slide 4, Gerrado caminhao on crutch, Aristida pallens 
in right foreground] 
This shows the cerrado, as well as the kind of motor roads there 
are* The caminhao is on a crutch while the wheel is being fixed*, These 
