To the Editor:

I wanted to express my delight in reading Sara Wright’s essay on lichens. I am an avid lichen lover and receive notifications when a new article is published on lichens. Usually, they are about various diseases or casual gardening blogs that reduce lichens to objects.

I appreciate the author’s love and care, as well as their all-consuming passion for lichen. Thank you so much for sharing such a sprawling web of lichen knowledge and love!

I do have one small note, and that is that I believe the fungal component in lichen has been named the mycobiont, not the microbiont … but perhaps I’m mistaken.

David Guzman

Bennington, VT

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