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becomes somewhat sticky between the fingers. People who live not far off, 
ina have weg these cow-trees, do not pr aise mae ihe pet ielding aU. 
ties. ave neither seen the fruit t nor the flower ea tin co 
ing its leaves with those of plants in my herbarium °F fd d the Sas ‘calablaaes 
in shape, structure and venation wit th some species of fig trees. The wood i 
white and of considerable hardness 
padle er returned to this pons and settled au? at St. _ Louis sometime 
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out the year 1373 the writer receive ed a note from the late Dr. Engel- 
mann, giving information that Fendler had settled at Seaford, Delaware, and 
requestin g that so me attention should be paid to him. After a short gmp 
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about 60 years of age, rather tall and 2 avg dignified and pleasant in address, 
but very titbdtest and often painfully diffide he writer frequently took botan- 
ical excursi ound fax ta be a devoted lover of nature and a 
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rious vegetation of the tropics will always be remembered by those Ae heard 
him; and his ee: and arduous journeys gave him much matter for enter- 
a3 conversatio 
e was Fecal goal honest and exact in every duty and business transac 
n, and it is within the writer’s knowledge that he at one ni me suffered what 
ne friends a. a Aras unjust loss, because af his determination to avoid a 
quarrel with a 
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pense proved to paratively small, but in this respect, was much more 
than i by the nine sale of the work, The few commendatory sage - 
Which he ived were bag asured and re-read with the greatest pleasure by the 
gentle ose guileles 
tention to make Wil- 
ada his hl ag peat ta ttled there he was 
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etation, excels everything I have seen. Such beauty in form, suc 2 ial 
colors portioned out amon g such an abundance | of Pengar® ary — cog 
tered masses 0 aaa is fndesoribakles efforts of the 
*The - iards) was described by Humbo i 
plana dand ada agents Set be hal pe sige Galactodendron utile. It is now consi 
dential wih he older genus Brot tA aceeent essen 
pected ties are yt es, all tropical American Ficus), they i ng sible, as his trees were 
- —* milkers, we that do the, ee have : smaller flow of the milky sap than others. 
