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Hargreaves Minas
Dec 21

The end of a perfect day

Dear Prof Hitchcock,
Dr. Rolfs advised me to stop off at Hargreaves (Argrāyaves in Brasilian) and it has proved to be decidedly rich. Within a km I'd collected Thraysa thrasyoides (I [[underlined]] think [[/underlined]]) plenty of it in fine condition, Pasp sanguin cotentum and P. lineare, Leptocoryphium (last 2 new for me in Brasil). I ran from 10225 to 10265.  Good things (new for me) are a funny looking Panicum, aff olyroides, Panicum of group next to Dicanth (or perhaps Dicanth), Axonopus (§ Cabrera may have collected it before).
With such nice specimens I

Transcription Notes:
Names not verified:- Thraysa thrasyoides: This is how she wrote it, but nothing in Google. Pasp(alum) sanguin cotentum: possibly contentin aff - is taxonomic terminology "related to" See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_affinis