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type itself in Munich, I hope and see what the "sympodial" inflorescence is. How can one be sure one's new species are new, when authors understand morphology so little as to write wholly misleading things about plants.-----For the last week I have been having a diener get down the plants from the uppermost cases. We take down a lot at a time (he hands them down to me) and he brings them over by my table on a herb pushcart. (Our new herb cart is to this as is baby carriage to a motor lorry.) It is a great help, both in time and strength. If you remember the herb here [[strikethrough]] is [[/strikethrough]] the cases are three high. The topmost pigeonholes are [[underline]] just [[/underline]] my limit from the top of a step-ladder about 10 feet high. The pigeon holes are deeper than ours and the contents are usually more than I can span, wherefore it is a ticklish job to get down the topmost row, and no easier to get it back. I pay the diener 100 kronen a day. When I finished the bottom case today (Sunday) I quit, about 2:30. The diener is always there early, so I can get the upper ones in the morning. The cleanliness of the herbarium and work rooms makes me feel as if we are barbarians. A woman dusts all the floors of the vast herbarium every day. (Imagine that done in our herb)) then she cooks lunch for Dr. Rechinger, the clerk, the diener, mounter and ^ [[h]]gerself. They all seem to have soup at noon. I wish we could import a Wiener diener or dienst frau. ------- Wednesday I went to the zoo-Bot Gesselschaft with Dr. Z. The assembly room is in the bot. institute at the botanical garden of the University, a distance from the museum. We had a few minutes to look about the garden. Not much is in bloom yet. There is a wonderful Ginko, like a great old burr-oak. I did not recognize it at first. The meeting was well attended. Of course I could not follow the address. It would probably have