Minnesota Botanical Studies, Vol. 2: 1898-1902 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Minnesota Botanical Studies, Vol. 2: 1898-1902

Professor E. E. Edwards, of Lancaster, Wisconsin, writes thus of the lichens found in the park: The rocks of the Dalles owe their beauty and variegated tints not alone to the metal oxides, or to the feldspar or hornblende chiefly composing them, but to the growth of minute lichens upon their surfaces, and these vary in color according to the dryness or moisture of the atmosphere. We have, therefore, in these, through sunshine and Shadow and the varying seasons, an endless and almost kaleidoscopic play of colors that makes them alike the delight and despair of the artist. The little area, being one of great natural beauty and set apart for an interstate park, will always attract thousands of Visitors annually and I hope to present in this paper thoughts which will enable the botanist who has a fair knowledge of lichen species and their distribution to see in this wonderful lichen population something of far greater inter est than mere beauty.

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