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able to walk a little way alone, being greatly stimulated by 
handfuls of unrecognizable plants. In a few days I could go 
farther, assisted by my aged mother, and good Dr. Webber, who 
put me up on his horse and accompanied me often a half mile 
or more, picking up what plants I desired. 
In time I had a collection of about fifty plants, and the vil- 
lage schoolmaster told me to send them down to San Francisco 
to Professor Bolander, at that time the only botanist in the west. 
A week later a letter came stating that Bolander could not name 
many of them, and advising that they be forwarded to Dr. Gray 
at Harvard. A little later there came a letter from the delighted 
Professor that at first took away my breath. 
“Lots of new plants,” he wrote, “but don’t work too hard. 
Take good care of your health. The plants will wait for you. 
I congratulate you upon the change of a rebel prison pen for a 
California paradise.” 
Inclosed was the list: I ran out into the yard, waving the 
letter over my head, and shouting the new name of each plant 
as it was reached. Fortunately there was no one in hearing, or 
I might have been arrested and committed to an asylum. 
This first list, with others naming later sendings, informed 
me that the curious 5-leaved clover, found intruding upon Frank’s 
front door-step had become (over night) 77zfolium Lemmont. 
Flaming up beside the gate was Castzlleja Lemmont. Beneath 
the bee-hive back of the house nestled Antennaria microcephala. 
Across the road from out a mass of rocks peered the large leaves 
and purple flowers of Asarum Lemmon. Along the little creek 
passing under the milk-house, gleamed the rose-red Epzlobzum 
brevistylum aud Mimulus Pulsiferae, while up stream around 
the bubbling spring, arose tall stems of the new genus Hlastzng- 
sta alba. Shading the creek for half its way to the distant 
slough, towered from fifteen to twenty feet, Sa/zx Lemmonz. In 
the broad meadow back of the barn verdant in spring, later 
veiled with the azure blooms of the Indian lily (Camassza escu- 
lenta) crowds in Allium Lemmonz, while down the road a little 
