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wet clothes, after I had [[strikethrough]] rung [[/strikethrough]] wrung them all as hard as I could (I have much stronger hands and wrists than Mrs M. has) and after we had eaten in bed. ^[[insertion]] (Nov 25)[[/insertion]] I tried to make a fire but after using two boxes of matches and a candle had to give it up. Every twig of my firewood was soaking wet. We left our things in the tent and started collecting in armloads. The dominant grass of the camp her is a [[strikethrough]] Deschampsia (?)[[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]]Calamagrostis, a beautiful sturdy thing with drooping purple panicle. (I think I got it in 1925 on Caparaó) Danthonias (2 sp I think) are next, Androp. lateralis (?) ^[[insertion]] Androp (§ Schizachyrium) [[/insertion]] Panicum superatum Hack., Pan. aff boreum, Calamagrostis scarce, Axonopus in dense clumps, a Bromus, scarce, Chusquea pinifolia in bloom, Briza calotheca common - nothing startling, but all, I think, will be new records for Esp. Santo for my Grasses of Brazil. I collected several sets for Mrs. M. too - it is too discouraging sloshing around in the cold rain without gathering something. We laid our armloads

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Deschampsia is a genus of plants in the grass family, commonly known as hair grass[6] or tussock grass Calamagrostis (small reed or reed grass Danthonia is a genus of American grasses sometimes referred to as oatgrass Andropogoneae Schizachyrium Andropogon lateralis Panicum superatum Hack word "her" should be "here"