﻿PLANT AE LINDHEIMERIANAE. 



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and his meaning clear, quite different from the usual compli- 

 cated, involved German sentence. 



Mr. Lindheimer was a man of medium height, with blue 

 eyes and black hair and beard, which in age became snowy 

 white. He possessed a strong, active body, which he had 

 developed in youth in the "Turnverein," and retained much 

 of his bodily vigor in his old age. He was quiet and dehberate 

 in manner, temperate and regular in his habits and a good 

 conversationalist, though loath to boast about himself or 

 much discuss his past history. He never became excited or 

 used strong language. A "freethinker" in his opinions, yet 

 he counted many priests and pastors among his best friends 

 and never antagonized religious institutions. He did not be- 

 lieve in slavery, but espoused warmly the Southern cause at 

 the outbreak of the Civil War. 



There is much in this quiet, modest, unassuming man and 

 his unselfish devotion to duty, that resembles his compatriot, 

 General Houston. But, while the talents of the latter led him 

 to war and political strife, Lindheimer turned to books and 

 the beauties of Nature. Both were friends of the Indian, and 

 indifferent to the accumulation of property, while they never 

 allowed their own interests to come in conflict with the public 

 weal. He ever loved freedom and independence, the simple 

 life and intellectual enjoyment, and the reward for his labors 

 was the esteem of his fellow-men. May Germany give us 

 many such of Nature's noblemen! 



