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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



. . . Was not he who creates lichens 

 the abettor of Cadmus when he invent- 

 ed letters? Types almost arrange 

 themselves into words and sentences, 

 as dust arranges itself under the mag- 

 net. Print ! it is a close-hugging lichen 

 that forms on a favorable surface, 

 which paper offers. The linen gets it- 

 self wrought into paper that the song 



i. e., what others call it, and therefore 

 could not conveniently speak of it, it 

 has suggested less to me, and I have 

 made less use of it. I now first feel 

 as if I had got hold of it." Have we 

 not here the true naturalist's instinct 

 revealed? To know Nature— -though 

 not necessarily to appreciate it — we 

 must be able to name her many chil- 



BOEMYCES ROSEUS (L.) PERS. 



LUNGWORT. 



(Sticta pulmonaria (I..) Ach. 



of the shirt may be printed on it. Who 

 placed us with eyes between a micro- 

 scopic and a telescopic world?" It 

 would seem that he here refers to 

 Buellia geographica Tuck. 



The last note that I take from his 

 Journal is one in which he mentions 

 his town neighbor, a Hellenist of repu- 

 tation, the clergyman botanist of 

 Chelmsford. ''Mrs. Ripley told me this 

 p. m. that [John Lewis] Russell had 

 decided that that green (and sometimes 

 yellow) dust on the underside of stones 

 in walls was a decaying state of 

 Lepraria chlorina, a lichen ; the yellow 

 another species of Lepraria. (This 

 plant is not now classed as a true 

 lichen.) I have long known this dust, 

 but as I did not know the name of it, 



dren. In so far as Thoreau named few 

 lichens we cannot call him a Hellenist, 

 yet as they made up a real part of his 

 world of Nature, and as he understood 

 their place and functions, we may say 

 at least he was a student of lichenology. 



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