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00825 Elizabeth. New Jersey Wed. Jan 15th. 1879. John Muir- Sir- For more than twenty five years, as opportunity
offered, I have as- ked returned Californians, the name of a plant found in the Prayer Book of a relative who died at Sacramento.
Having made your acquaintance through the fresh, poetic , instructive articles in Scribner . I take the liberty to send a
leaf, imperfect description of the flower, - which is perhaps un- necessary and must be very illegible , having been pressed
so many years, fastened on paper. Stem woody leaves irregular. Caly illegible , probably these leaved. Corolla illegible a
petalled. more than two inches in length, with