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remained in Campo Grande till Mr. M could get a house in some sort of condition. The trip was supposed to take 2 days. We reached Dourados at dusk Monday - four days. Mr. Maxwell had said  [[margin, vertical line in blue pencil]] "There are no dangers to be
encountered in Matto Grosso, but there are plenty of hardships." That fits the case - rain and mud and terrible roads and more terrible places to stop at night, swarms of midges and little black and white flies [[image: small winged bug]] that nearly drive one crazy, and chiggers that raise blisters - nothing like so romantic as Indians [[/margin, vertical line in blue pencil]]

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with poisoned arrows. I collected while the caminhõas were being dug out of the mud, punctures repaired, etc ([[underlined]] lots [[/underlined]] of etcs) but the grasses of Campo Grande continue [[margin, in blue pencil]] X [[/margin]] all the way down, 312 km. New for me on the way was Panicum  trachyspermum, a Panicum (of Laxa group?) spklts in racemes, much larger than Laxum, boliv. and polygonat. It looks very like [[insertion, in blue pencil]] [[underlined]] is [[/underlined]] [[/insertion]] P. [[underlined, in blue pencil]] hemitomon [[/underlined]] but has gl 1 half as long as spklt,; a Pasp of Livida Group, [[insertion, in blue pencil]] [[underlined]] new [[/underlined]] [[/insertion]] I [[underlined]] think [[/underlined]] that one of Parodi's I once called P. buckleyanum.

Transcription Notes:
caminhõas = trucks Polygonatum