Letters to a Friend 



Orders Open flowers Species 



Rubiaceae 40 I white 



85 Natural order unknown 



60 Plants unflowered 



Polemoniacese 407 2 purple 



Graminese 29,830 3; stems about 700; spikelets 



10,700 



Musci 10,000,000 2 purples, Dicranum, Tunar 



Total of open flowers, 165,912 

 " " flowers in bud, 100,000 

 " " withered, 40,000 

 " " natural orders, 9-11 

 " " species, 16-17 



The yellow of these Composite is extremely 

 deep and rich and bossy, as though the sun had 

 rilled their petals with a portion of his very self. 

 It exceeds the purple of all the others in super 

 ficial quantity forty or fifty times their whole 

 amount, but to an observer who first looks 

 downward and then takes a more distant view, 

 the yellow gradually fades and purple predomi 

 nates because nearly all of the purple flowers 

 are higher. In depth the purple stratum is 

 about ten or twelve inches, the yellow seven or 

 eight, and second purple of mosses one. 



I 'm sorry my page is done. I have not told 

 anything. I thought of you, Mrs. Carr, when 

 I was in the glorious Yosemite and of the proph- 

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