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nasium at Skara and subsequently graduated from the Uni- 
versity of Upsala, in 1843." 
It was evident, not only from the friendly correspondence 
which was always kept up between them, but also from many 
a pleasing anecdote which we were wont to hear of life and 
study and travel in intimate companionship with his revered 
master, that Mr. Kumlien had been, while at Upsala, a very 
special favorite among the botanical pupils of Professor Elias 
Fries. How thoroughly worthy the youth must have been, of 
the partieular attention of the great Swedish botanist of the 
nineteenth century, was still manifest in Mr. Kumlien when 
I first made his acquaintance, some sixteen or eighteen years 
after his arrival in this country. He was then a sort of 
second and American edition of Fries, in his almost equal 
familiarity with each of the following great departments of 
botanical study ; phanerogams, ferns and their allies, mosses, 
lichens and fungi. He had, in 1860, and I know not how 
long before, so well mastered the extensive and varied flora 
of southern Wisconsin, that there was no indigenous tree or 
shrub, flower, grass or sedge, or moss or hepatic, lichen or 
mushroom, the scientific name of which was not at his 
tongue’s end for you at any moment. I am confident that, 
notwithstanding our considerable list of worthy names in 
Ameriean botany, no state in our Union has ever had so com- 
plete a master of its whole flora, as Wisconsin had in this 
extraordinary man, whom oar eastern botanists seldom heard 
anything of; whom, with his low stature, muscular frame, 
rather stooping shoulders, light hair and keen blue eyes, à 
stranger might have mistaken as he passed along the country 
roads, for an ordinary farmer from the Scandinavian settle- 
ment; who, in the most polished society would have been 
recognized as an intelligent, refined and almost courtly gentle- 
man; in whom any scholar would have found a finished col- 
legian of the old Swedish school whose pen eould indite 
Ciceronian Latin and whose tongue could address a foreigner 
in, I believe, any one of the languages of Europe spoken 
between Spain and Sweden. But that which makes his 
