
          once more for what I do not think I
should ever have thought of asking for
myself. I cannot but long
anxiously for yetmore of Fremonts treas-
ures. Should other specimens turn up that
you can spare of those already sent, I will
promise you they shall go only to
the "Lich. Amer. Exsicc.", + whatever is 
over, shall be returned. I cannot tell
how many of those you sent will be in
sufficient number to publish fairly. I
fear Ev. vulpina will hardly slip through.
It is so splendid a thing in California
+ Oregon, that I had rather husband pre-
sent stores till more come, than be compelled
to put poor specimens in some of the copies to
make out the set. I shall know when
they come from the press however. The other
Evernia is, as I fancied, a new sp.; with 
bright yellow shields! I have not looked it up
yet, but suspect it may have escaped notice. 
The Ramal. retiformis has [?] greatly.
Would that more such Lichens as these might
        