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4 in margin: 572 see your observations on the Sequoia? This reminds me that Tho. Meehan one of our ablest botanists who
has given special attention to the study the cultivation of the Coniferae is very desirous to obtain a quantity of cones of
the various forms of underlined: Pinus aristata . Murray described a P. Balf illegible from Mt. Shasta which Meehan believes
to be only a narrow- coned from of P. aristata - he desires material to decide this question. Will you keep this in mind the
coming season or if you have any send them to me by express? I now wish that you had numbered the plants you sent me that
I might more readily refer to any particular species in correspondence - get exact localities. Yours very truly John H. Redfield
in margin: Redfield 00730 1 Phila. Feb 12 1876 John Muir 1419 Taylor St. San Francisco My dear Sir I have your
favor of 27th illegible , thank you for the imformation respecting the habitats of the two species of Botrychium which you
sent. These facts extend the province of each of these species beyond our previous knowledge. The smaller species I regard
as B. simplex. Parry found it in 1873 near Yellowstone Lake the farthest west up to that time. It occurs in Central Europe
- in scattered localities in Canada northern states and seems to be one of those species widely distributed but common no
where or if common eludes detection by its small size. The other large Botrychium, I was v