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5 Linnaea This was T 1st tm T blessd plant ws fd within T bounds of Cal, it wld almost seem TT Gray had felt its pres T
ngt before at T campfire 10 mls away. When Linnaaus was 25 years of age he md T mst noteable of his lng lonely lot excurs's.
Sett out in Uppsala he wond'd afoot or on horseback thru endless pine birtch wds, meads tundras into Lapland beyond T Artic
Circle. He brought bck huns of spes of plants then? illegible among wch was a 03569 (exuberance) 6 lit frag evergreen
TT he liked T bst of all. Hand a spec of it his friend Gronovius he pointed out its characters requested him describe it name
it for him say : TT somehow he felt TT this lit plant was related him like himself. So it was named Linnaea borealis. In
T wilder, parts of T Rocky Mts, far north along T Pacific, I hv fd Linnaea bloom spread in glorious ex far wd over mossy ground
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