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2 The summit pine of our Sierra is P. Albianlis of Engelmann. the P. flexilis Torr given in this work as a synonym is a
very different tree, growing spa illegible on the Eastern flank of the Sierra, from Bloody Canon Southward, but very abundant
on all the higher Basin ranges, on the Wahsatch Rocky Mountains. The Grange book is it seems another exhaustive deleted: book
work. There is something admirable in the scientific nerve aplomb manifested in the titles of these swollen volumes. How a
tree book can be exhaustive when every species is ever on the living? from one form to another with infinite variety, it is
not easy to see. I haven t the least idea who 3 Mr Rexford is, but if connected with the Bulletin I can probably get
the title of his Citrus book through Mr Williams, will probably see him next Sunday. The Sunday Convention Ma illegible offered
me a hundred dollars for two lectures on the Yosemite rocks in June, I have not yet agreed to do so, though I probably shall,
as I am not going into Colorado this summer. Excepting a day at San Jose with Allen I have hardly been out of my room for
weeks. pegging away with my quill accomplishing little. My last efforts were on the preservation of the Sierra forests, the
wild trampled conditions of our flora from a bee point of view. I want to spend the greater portion of the season up the coast
observing