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3 here or hereabts for specs hv been st me from Wash Oregon I thk yu shd hv fd it hr or a little way north of hr. I replied
Linneae has always been a fav of mine ever since I began to wonder in T wilderness. I hv fd many of its coms in T High Sierra
woods arround T glacier mead bt Lin itself I hv not yt ft. Nevertheless sd Gray T blessed little yellow mst be no grt dis
off here. Then we wrapped ourselves in our blans fell 03567 4 asleep with our mds full of Linnaea. Next a.m. Gray con'ed
his wrk on T mt., while Hooker I md an excursion 8 or 10 mls T wstward. Abt noon, aft ford - one of T branches of T upper
Sac. we noticed a grn carpet on T bank md of someth we did not at fst rec for it was not in bloom. Hooker look keen/ at it
sd whts TT? Then we bth dismnt from our ponies pluck specimens Hooker sd Isnt TT Linnaea? its awfully like it. Then find some
of T illegible flowrs he exclmd It is 03569