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No 54 Licanora oreina with Licidia atwalba
Blue Mounds, Wisc.

No 55. Placedium [Elifous?] on Limestone
Blue Mounds Wisc.

No 56 [nantry?]

No 57. [Liciden parasema?], [var Catypea Ash?]
on quartz Barraboo [Baraboo] Wisconsin

[Lycofurden germatum?]. No number

Mycelium of some unknown fungus no_

If you will be willing to spare me for
a few days Prof Tuckeman's letter to
you in which he communicated his [zenith?]
I will return it very soon. Some little points
which I do not now comprehend in your
copy will be clear to me thereby.

The study of these specimens have been
of great value to me & I shall always feel
the amount of your generosity as a renewed
instance of the Early courtesy which marked
you in my first interview among the bushes
and flowers of Ohio woods.

With our love & Esteem affectly Yr's
John L. Russell

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PS. Mrs. R. has just come into the
study and says "give my love to
Julia & tell her, I have not forgotten
her." to which I add neither have I.

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lcgrady

The scientific names of specimens bedeviled me. Someone with a botany background or the willingness to search the web for scientific nomenclature may fare better. Lee G.