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Letter: For the record

Published 5 August 2015

• The redcoats came! The mini-forest we pictured was British Soldier lichen, Cladonia cristatella, named after the colour of British soldiers’ uniforms during the American revolution (18 July, p 22)

Issue no. 3033 published 8 August 2015

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