Botanical Explorations of Thomas Nuttall. 113 



capacity, and was near enough to the truth for common purposes, I did 

 not disturb it. With the exception of Mr. Nuttall, we had no one on 

 board but the regular ship's company, and the live stock." * 



On July 22, 1836, after a hard and protracted storm off the 

 southern coast of South America, Dana states : 



" Even Mr. Nuttall, the passenger, who had kept in his shell for nearly 

 a month, and hardly been seen by anybody, and who we had almost for 

 gotten was on board, came out like a butterfly, and was hopping around 

 as bright as a bird." t 



And again : 



" Jn the general joy, Mr. Nuttall said he should like to go ashore upon 

 the island [Staten Island, a little east of Cape Horn] and examine a spot 

 which probably no human being had ever set foot upon ; but the captain 

 intimated that he would see the island specimens and all in another 

 place before he would get out a boat or delay the ship one moment for 

 him." J 



On the 21st of September, 1836, Nuttall arrived in Boston, 

 thus ending his last important American journey. 



It is important that the new species based on Nut-tail's Califor- 

 nian collections be critically identified, and since to many Cali- 

 fornian botanists both the type specimens and the original de 

 scriptions are not readily accessible, the following list of species 

 has been prepared. The list, arranged by type localities, includes 

 the species described in Torrey and Gray's Flora of North Amer 

 ica, 1838 to 1843, and in the seventh and eighth volumes of the 

 Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series, 

 1840 to 1843. After the original name is given the current 

 equivalent, if different from the original, and any additional in 

 formation suggested by the first description, such as the habitat, 

 precise locality, date of collecting or flowering, probable mis- 

 identification, or incorrect use of a name. No attempt has been 

 made to identity the species critically. It is hoped that this 

 information will be used by California!! botanists in making 

 collections of these plants at their type localities, so that ample 

 material for careful study may be available in American herbaria- 



*[Dana, R. H.] Two Years before the Mast, 359-361, 1840. 

 tOp. cit., 412. 

 jOp. cit., 412-413. 



