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The country round about is too cultivated and weedy to botanize here and it has rained every day. I collected at Ypiranga and had to dry the stuff in the gas stove oven. I had been hoping to Thursday and now I [[underlined]] hope [[/underlined]] to go Sunday. Dr. Hoehne gave me a card permitting me to collect at the biological station at Alta da Serra an hour from here on the train. It rained torrents Thursday and [[strikethrough]] yes [[/strikethrough]] today so I haven't gone. If it is not raining in the morning I'm going, but hoping to leave Sunday I don't want wet clothes, wet shoes and a pressful of wet [[strikethrough]] clothes [[/strikethrough]][[insertion]] grasses [[/insertion]] to take along. //Dr. Hoehne has given