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ceiving grasses from those South Americans, Jürgens and the rest. Sodiro's specimens are miserable, like Brother Claudes, but Jürgens are excellent, so are Bertoni's. Sodiro's labels show that he is S.J. (a Jesuit priest). We must try to get an exchange with Univ. of Zurich. Lots of Hackel's African grasses are on their label, and I surmise that some of the missing African types are in Zurich.-----Please send one of my copies of your Genera of Amer Grasses to Dr. Rudolf Wagner, Wien I, Nationalbibliothek. When I get back I am going to get some copies from Govt Printing office and send them to Europe. They can't buy things in foreign countries with their no-account money. Dr. Wagner is very anxious to get seeds of Munroa squarrosa to grow some plants for study. He has found something remarkable in the anatomy of its leaves. I told him that you had redi^[[e]]scribed its inflorescence--it had been misunderstood. That is why I promised him your Genera. ****-- We are going to hear Parsifal Saturday night. I have been reading it in German nights--tough reading. ----I see so many fine things from Buchtien. I am so glad that we have bought his herbarium.-----Easter Sunday.-- I did not work today. We all went up the Leopoldberg and Kahlenberg, high hills on the Danube. On clear days I have been seeing the Kahlenberg from the Herbarium windows. Pea annua is the only grass out yet. Forsythia is just at its best--that will give a standard to measure by, more than a month later than Washington. This is the first warm day we have had--a glorious day. We left right after breakfast, taking our lunch of rye bread and sausage with us. Hepatica (it [[underline]] is [[/underline]] different from ours), Anemone nemorosa, the little grape hyacinth (forget its name) were out, and numberless Ranunculus sp. There was a thorny Crataegus not quite in bloom and what I think is wild cherry of some sort on the

Transcription Notes:
Munroa squarrosa is a species of grass known by the common name false buffalograss