The Forgotten Botanist: Sara Plummer Lemmon's Life of Science and Art by Wynne Brown Monuments With brilliant flies from around

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The Forgotten Botanist: Sara Plummer Lemmon's Life of Science and Art by Wynne Brown Monuments With brilliant flies from aroundThe Forgotten Botanist is the account of an extraordinary woman who, in 1870, was driven by ill health to leave the East Coast for a new life in the West alone. At thirty three, Sara Plummer relocated to Santa Barbara, where she taught herself botany and established the town's first library. Ten years later she married botanist John Gill Lemmon, and together the two discovered hundreds of new plant species, many of them illustrated by Sara, an