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I never got before, Trichopteryx flammida for one. I saw the big thing from the train in São Paulo and was most curious to know what the big golden plumes were. I got a beautiful Mesosetum, new for me, I think, a Sorghastrum 2-3 M tall, an Elionurus, and, last thing, almost, today Hackel's Eriochloa castanea which is a Paspalum (P. pyriforme C. [[ined.)?]] if I'm right, and I [[underline]] thing [[/underline]] I am -- it has such a funny swollen base, -- this X [[underline]] is new for Brasil. [[/underline]] It was described from Paraguay and I've never seen any but the type coll., one of  Hassler's [[underline]] I think. [[/underline]] I had to come in early to get plants changed, in press, and trunks ready to [[strikethrough]] go [[/strikethrough]] be "despachado."

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[[underline]] Mais tarde. [[/underline]] Trunks off. It was a relief when I saw my three sent a week before, in the baggage room here. The railroads in this part of Brasil are pretty good -- of course they rock and bump furiously, but they are usually on time. Coming here it arrived at midnight instead of 7:30 and tonight it is 2:30 but I've seldom been more than half an hour late in Minas or São Paulo. When the train passed the washout I didn't wonder it took a week. A great piece of embankment and the culvert below were washed out, the big culvert pipes lying every

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Transcription Notes:
Emil Hassler, Swiss-born Paraguayan physician and botanist (1864 – 1937)