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letterhead 2. I had been out, I think on a Saturday, on a Botanical ramble around M uil? Lake, gathering some new specimens
of plants for my herbarium. The next morning I r ested? myself on the steps of our Dormitory to analyze them and put them
into the Press, and while so engaged you came along and looked on with considerable interest, and finally said you didn't
see how I so readily illegible the species and names of the plants I had. I picked up a new specimen and said, 'sit down a
few minutes, Muir, and I will take this plant and explain it to you.' Then I began, calling attention to the leading features
of the plant and flower, and referring to the tables and gradually tracing the plant from one subdivision to another until
I had fixed the Order, and then turning to the Order from the table there illegible getting the genus and species. When I
had thus traced the plant to its name, you exclaimed,'That's wonderful, perfectly wonderful, Griswold; I must get me a Botany
right off ' And you did get one, almost immediately, and after that we had many a cheery Botanical ramble together often tramping
about the wooded shores of the Lakes. 02819