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8 Can it be that a single flower or wee, or grass, in all these prairies occupies a chance position? Can it be that the
folding or curvature of a single leaf is wrong or undetermined in these gardens that God is keeping - The most microscopic
portions of plants are beautiful in themselves, and these are beautiful combined into individuals? undoubtably all are woven
with equal care into one harmonious beautiful whole - I have the analyses of two other handfuls of illegible plants? which
I will show you at another time We hope to be in Madison in about three weeks. To me all plants are more precious than before,
my poor eye is not better or worst A cloud is over it but in going? over the wildest? landscapes I am not always sensible
in margin: My love to Allie illegible Butler and all my friends Please tell the Butlers when? illegible are coming? Their
invitation is prior yours but your homes are not widely separated. I promise? to write again before leaving illegible You
will illegible have all my illegible I will have illegible to listen. Most cordially John Muir 5 had Hugh Miller seen
it then he would not have called regalis the finest of British ferns. I think that I have seen specimens of the ostrich fern
in some places of illegible which might rival my Osmunda? in height, but not in beauty sub illegible . I was anxious to see
Illinois prairies on my way home, So we went to Decat- ur near the centre of the state thense north by Rockford Jan illegible
ville, I botanized one week on the illegible about seven miles southwest of illegible . I gathered the most beautiful bouquet
there that I ever saw I seldom make bouquets I never saw but very few that I thought were at all beautiful I was anxious to
know the grasses sedges of the illegible illegible and also their comparative abundance so