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stand next time.  Anyhow, I had hot water and mighty good meals.  After the war countries Swiss prices seem very high.  Swiss money has not depreciated.  That ought to be a pacifist argument with people to whom slaughter of young men is of no consequence. ---------May 31.--I received a letter from Dr. Hassler here, saying that he had left the set for U.S. with Chodat at the University.  I am sending the letter after copying most of it to send to Dr. Briquet, because he was so anxious to know how Hassler is.  I also send letters from Prof and Frau Hackel.-- Olyra sympodica [[underlined]] is [[/underlined]] Raddia biformis.  There is a single fertile culm on the specimen here.  Döll must have been "seeing things" when he wrote all that about the sympodium.  And that misleading name will have to replace the apt one of biformis.  I showed it to Pilger.  He could not guess what Döll meant either.  He said Döll's work on Fl. Bras. was not not very good.--I am not finding all Mez types here, but I find a good many.  I am making note of some of his worst mixtures.  They may help us and others some time to straighten out his muddles.  Dr. Schneider says Engler is responsible for sending the grasses to Mez.  Poor Pilger looks pained at the mention of Mez.  Mez is nothing short of a calamity--it will be endless work to straighten up the herbarium after him, to say nothing of his publication.  Zum Beispiel:  Eriochloa pacifica [[strikethrough ]] was [[/strikethrough]]is published with 6 specimens cited.  I find 2 of these marked "pacifica" by Mez, 2 more "Eriochloa Munroi Mez, nov. sp." and the others something else.  Curtiss 3600* type of E. debilis Mez is so named in Mez script.  A duplicate (exactly the same, I went back and compared) is named "E. longifolia Vas." in Mez script.  Dr. Pilger thinks Mez must have had Petrograd grasses.  I wish I could go on to Petrograd.  You cleaned up Trinius there, but if Mez has had their rich material it will need another cleaning up.  I hold my tongue about what I think of Mez's work, of course,------Sunday evening Fraulein Schneider and I went to hear Margarethe (Faust).  It was wonderfully fine, and cost me about 45 cents for both of us in the parquet.--I got lost in the subway