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long they stay with you, and if you can tell me in regard to them while 
With you?” 
A small white alpine anemone that disdains to exist below five 
thousand feet altitude, but lives, thrives, and blossoms on the rug¬ 
ged rock escarpment of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, just at the 
perpetual snow line, above the clouds, was named, for our natural 
historian, Kumlienia. Few men but the most daring mountain 
climbers will ever enjoy the sight of this beauty of the clouds. 
But all who, know the story of this hardy survival of the fittest, 
this charming white emblem of purity blossoming up there against 
perpetual snow caps, will never look on those picturesque ever¬ 
lasting granite hills rising one above another into the birthplace 
of the winds, without a kindly thought for Kumlienia. 
Edward Lee Greene, in his life of Thure Kumlien, writes of it: 
“A rare and still but little known Ranunculaceous plant of the middle 
Sierra Nevada in California, a flower with calyx of a Caltha, corolla of 
Helleborus, and an utricular carper not like that of any genus of its fam¬ 
ily, a clear generic type, was dedicated to him two or three years since 
(1885) as Kumlienia, but these small tokens, like our worded tributes, 
are all inadequate to speak the praises, or worthily perpetuate the memory 
of a man so pure, so simple, so noble, and so well beloved” ( 4 ). 
“Among the purple autumnal Asters, as they grew around him there, 
at least in the earlier time, there was one species, which received from 
Prof. Elias Pries the name Aster Kumlieni” ( 4 ). 
Aster Kumlieni is represented in the herbarium of the Public 
Museum at Milwaukee by specimens marked 456 and 457, col¬ 
lected in 1858-60 in a ditch three quarters of a mile of Bussey- 
ville, at a place known as Beneworth’s collected by Thure Kum¬ 
lien and originally labeled by him i( Aster amethyst inns Nutt,” 
and “Aster oblongifolius Nutt” (17). He mailed specimens to 
Fries, at Upsala, who pronounced it a new species, and gave it 
the name Aster Kumlieni in 1860. 
The Kumlien vireo (Vireo Philadelphicus) is referred to by 
Kumlien in a letter to Prof. H. Schlegel, of the Royal Museum of 
the Netherlands, February 13, 1862, as “Viris PJiiladelphica. I 
was the first who found that bird.” Why this rare and little 
known beauty of the orchard and forest was not properly given 
the name “Kumlien Vireo” for its discoverer, the author cannot 
now ferret out. This late justice is accorded our modest natur¬ 
alist. 
