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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 particular 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 i860, 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, notwith- 

 standing our considerable list of worthy names in American 

 botany, no state in our Union has ever had so complete a master 

 of its whole flora, as Wisconsin had in this extraordinary man, 

 whom our eastern botanists seldom heard anything of; whom, 

 with his low stature, muscular frame, rather stooping shoulders, 

 light hair and keen blue eyes, a stranger might have mistaken, 

 as he passed along the country roads, for an ordinary farmer from 

 the Scandinavian settlement; who in the most polished society 

 would have been recognized as an intelligent, refined and almost 

 courtly gentleman; in whom any scholar would have found a 

 finished collegian of the old Swedish school whose pen could 

 indite Ciceronian Latin and whose tongue could address a for- 

 eigner in, I believe, any one of the languages of Europe spoken 

 between Spain and Sweden." 



Such was the man who passed on to Greene the best traditions 

 of European botany. It may safely be said that his influence 

 and teaching were of much greater value to Greene than the 

 more formal education which he received at Albion Academy, 

 an institution of collegiate standing from which he graduated in 

 1866, with the degree of Ph.B. 



