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2 our book, but I have endeavored on the enclosed piece of paper to show as nearly as I can the size and color of our flower
from memory. I have read over the descriptions of Erigeron caespitosus and E. salsuginosus? - and am sure ours is the latter.
the botanists of the Academy also determine it as such. In reading over the descrition of caespitosus which I enclose - it
does not seem possible it could 1 Dear Mr Muir I thank you very much for your kind letter and encouraging words about
our book on the wild flowers. I should have written before but have been trying to secure a specimen of the Arctic daisy (as
we supposed it) to send you. But I can get only a poor dried up thing which gives no conception of its beauty. I am not the
artist of 02757