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kilometers back. It looked better than I found this mt. It is interesting to note the effect of grazing on the campos. 
[[margin, vertical line in blue]] None of the campo looks over-grazed either, the ground is thickly covered with grasses and other plants, but in grazed campo Aristida is common, sometimes dominant ^[[insertion]] and scarce in ungrazed campo [[/insertion]] Trachypogon also. [[insertion]] (but common in ungrazed, too.) [[/insertion]]
The tall bunch grass Axonopus 
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species almost disappear and so do most Paspalums. At Casa Branca a fence divided grazed from ungrazed and comparison was easy. Axon

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opus fissifolius and, in richer spots, A. compressus seem to thrive on grazing, making mats and sometimes a sod. Aristidas and Trachypogon are obviously let alone, but these ^[[insertion]] creeping [[/insertion]] Axonopus show that they are closely grazed. The same is true of Pasp pilosum though less eaten than Axon.
- Sunday night. It has rained all afternoon, worse luck, for my presses full need the sun. The swamp stuff from Areado is still in press. I had nothing to read with me, not even a Portuguese grammar and after doing my mending I used most of the afternoon