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toward the river; struck some wet ground and back water and collected that Oryza again-this being a different state.  I got [[underline]] Paspalum pictum [[/underline]] at last, [[underline]] Imperata tenuifolia, [[/underline]] missed in MG before, Hymenactive amplex, Pasp acuminatum, and some other things I had't got in MG.  I got a Paspalum that seems to be P. melanospermum (never collected that) and what I thought was Pasp flaccidum again, but now it is drying I see the sterile lemma in cross-wrinkling like P. praximatum Döll - the thing [[underline]] Trinius [[/underline]] called P. angustifolium Nees, not Nees ipse,
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I think it is that, hope so.  I crossed over to Goyaz and got a few more over there.  The Araguaya is narrow here, not as wide a Rio Babylonia which is an affluant. 
   I had expected to get here Friday night, stay over Sat. in this piece of Amazon region, and go on on Sunday.  José said he [[underline]] had [[/underline]] to have a day to make repairs to his "machina", so I'm a day behind.  I do [[underline]] hope [[/underline]] we shall not have rains this week.
   I set out this morning - I asked for bread, saying I wouldn't be back for almoҫa and I ate a banana I took from table last night.

Transcription Notes:
Hymenachne amplex = Hymenachne amplexicaulis