end, with a longitudinal crease, 1.9 x 6.2 mm, 1.7 x 5.1. They look like small wheat grains. April 27. Campsite above La Varanada. Light snow on everything, no bloom or seeds. Lots of clumps with tall new shoots covered with sheaths, only a couple of leaves at top. Other new shoots with a few side leaves. Frequently, the new shoots are taller than any of the old shoots, even 3 ft. taller. But many clumps have no, or few, new shoots reaching above the old. Couldn't find our measured clump; plotted what may be it, but no tags; at least 20 healthy new shoots, started sprouting. Collected 3 smaller specimens of the small kind on the r. bank side of the road-cutter, near 5 your campsite (but across the road), and 3 specimens of big cana in the Langa farther in the road. Horses grazing near camp. April 29 Abel Basti quotes several sugareños of the Rio Manso area as saying that cava do not like the kind of bamboo that grows in large forests (or, at least) the large forests of the Manso zone. May 8 Collected samples from 4 places of Puerto Blast (see catalog). Was hoping to get ch. argentine in the Cantara sample, but it may have collected too high up the slope. The lower elevation plants are smaller and spindlier. Walked back from Cantara to Blast, but only a few flowered plants. The big one in the camping meadow is conspicuous, but has very few if