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00656 My Dear Mr. Muir BOTANIC GARDEN, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. April 9 1873 Thanks for your letter of Feb. 22 - 26,
which arrived yesterday. And I have already nearly finished my report on your precious specimens. As you did not number them
I have to underline: locate them, by putting the names on your slips that enclosed them. - sometimes too returning the specimen,
or a part of it. So that you will identify them, I think. I grieve that I can't go to California again this summer. Time means
are wanting. So I must stay at home, work on Calif. Botany instead. If you will keep botanizing on the high Sierras, you will
find curious new things, no doubt, One such, at least, is in your present collection in letter - the we mouse-tail underlined:
Ivesia - -