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the focusing plate to be sure of the focus.  The Raddi plants are on the inside of folios, also, one leaf of which I had to bend back -- so I feel well pleased to find I got very good photos.  I showed some of the Raddi to Dr. Pilger.  He was delighted and asked if they might have prints.  I am very glad to have them  made -- the full set.  Ichnanthus loiocarpus is certainly Navicularia lanata.  There is an immature specimen here just like Raddi's.  This is as you disposed of it in your revision from description only.  Panicum condensatum Raddi (a thing we could never guess because we had nothing like it) knocks out Panicum Januarium Mez -- to my joy.  In the herbarium Mez named it P. fluminense Mez, but these specimens are cited under the publication of P. Januarium.  In my notes on condensatum I had written "unlike anything we have."  When I came to Mez's P. januarium I recognized it, got out the film and verified my guess.  The work goes slowly, what with Mez, Nees, Döll, Schrader, and odds and ends of others to be on the lookout for.  Mez [[insert]] written [[/insert]] names so often do not agree with his published names, -- z.B.:  specimens cited under P. missionum, are named, some helobium, some Niederleinii.  They are distributed under Mez names as [[underlined]] written [[/underlined]] and have not been checked up by his publications.  They will have a sweet time of it if they ever start to straighten things out.  Not all Mez is here.  I guess one would have to search all Europe, -- Lubeck and Breslau, Pilger mentioned. Döll's herb. is at Karlsruhe.  I suppose that is where all his Spruce types are. Those [[insert in pencil]] ^(Spruce)[[/insert in pencil]]  I have found so far, Wien, Munich and here, have no Döll script.  I got more Döll in Wien than anywhere else so far. ---- I have bought the Fedde Repert. issues we need from Fedde selbst.  He sold me the volume for $2 "fur Sie [[underlined]] hier [[/underlined]]," he explained.  Its price sent to America is $8 (because 60% of the selling price goes for reparation fund).  I also bought Mez's latest and worst Schrecklichkeit.  Wait till you see it -- you will say "For the love of [[underlined]] Pete [[/underlined]]!"  That was also "$2 fur Sie."  I paid him $10 in American