Plants Blest live canes with flowering heads mixed in, (3) living clumps with some or all of the canes dropping with slaty-lavender flowering heads. With a bird lens these look like they are unopened flowers. Yesterday discarded 4 adult & also longi. Today discarded 6 adult & longi and a leafy something from Anita's line (prob Onyongya). Today discarded also 3 Battue, all young over my line in the Helagonum - Fitzroya swamp caught 1 also alive about 50 m back in, and 1 also longi close to the road. Released Brenonys at 4F at 1 PM, all day sunny! Wandered around rows 3, 4, and 5 looking for 4F. During this time I saw no Berberis on the grid. Along the road etc., are fair numbers of B. Darwinii in full flower (a walkover behind Sago Maccardi), a few B. persei in bloom, and maybe 2 other species. Thus the observer's scarcity of Berberis on this grid is certainly a major eff. With grid between this and the Castano Otero, I also dug a half-dozen holes along Row 4. Lots of humus (black) in top 6 inches, but tends to get coarse-sandy at deeper levels. Not as light & fluffy as on the other two grids. * Note that we saw no bamboo flowering on the other grids. Victor says he saw numerous dead clumps while he was fishing down the Tiras River. Saw no big grubs, but a couple of earthworms. The Metro in front of XL Corso is into late bud but few flowers open, about like Barlaba a week ago. The Scotch Broom also seems about a week behind Sao Joo.