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You speak of a Pleurothallis that is too fragile 
to press. Perish the thoughtI Just place it between 
driers in a folder. It will*oome out all right. If you 
had mentioned Stanhopea as too fragile to press, you 
would hare received words of sympathy. 
If this letter reaches you at Christmas time, read 
between, the lines the best wishes in the world for an 
ideal tropical holiday, I passed my one and only Christmas 
away from home, in the tropics, on a lonely trail in the me 
mountains of Brazil, I remember the day clearly! My 
Christmas dinner consisted of chicked buried in cassava 
meal, wrapped in a news-paper. That ms the expedition 
on which I discovered a little Tetramiar&Hhat had been 
"lost" for thirty years. A few days before I found it. 
Dr, Boefgren had shown me a delicate wateredor sketch 
of it, as he tola me how the only specimen had become 
loot in the mails on its way to Prof, Cogniaux. Jocular¬ 
ly, I told Loefgrea that I would find his orchid for 
him. When I returned to Bio along the above mentioned, 
lonely trail, my progress was interrupted by a large 
tree which had fallen aox a css the trail after I lull pass¬ 
ed on going up. On the trunk of the tree, on the side 
toward me, over the middle of the trail, I saw a small 
white flower* I had rediscovered Loefgren’s lost orchid, 
When Standiey arrives in January or February, I 
wish you would turn over to hima&ny of the common' or chi ids 
that you find it inconvenient to bother with. Standley 
ought to press all flowering species whether or not they 
are common. He is prepared to do this in my behalf. I 
regard Standiey»s expedition as an an exceptional oppor¬ 
tunity to enrich our knowledge of the Costa Bican orchid 
flora. 
With the best wishes in the world for the Christ¬ 
mas season. 
Yours faithfully. 
