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manifested in collecting and preserving fine specimens in a perfect 

 state of maturity, and in such abundance as to render examina- 

 tions satisfactory, and also noting the time of maturity, the habitat, 

 and all circumstances necessary to arrive at a correct knowledge of 

 the species in all its phases." Further, as evidencing the zeal of 

 his correspondent, he adds, "He sent me by mail, almost weekly, 

 examples of species new for California." The moss flora had not 

 been studied in the field, and its richness was scarcely suspected. 



Professor Tuckermann, of Amherst, received the lichens of the 

 State Survey collection, and makes especial mention of Bolander's 

 services to Californian Botany in the preface to his paper on the 

 "Lichens of California, Oregon, and the Rocky Mountains," 1886. 

 The algre were sent to Lencrmand of Vire, France; the hepaticse 

 were forwarded to Austin, of New Jersey (who was recommended 

 by Torrey as "industrious and sharp"), and, later, to Gottsche, of 

 Altona, Germany; while to Dr. Engelmann, of St. Louis, was sent 

 a large duplicate set of oaks, coniferse, and junci. Professor Parla- 

 tore, of Italy, received a full set of the conifers, and miscellaneous 

 duplicates were presented to De Candolle at Geneva, and Baron 

 von Miiller, of Melbourne. 



The flowering plants, as a rule, went to Torrey and Gray, but 

 mostly to Gray, who assisted the young botanist in procuring some 

 expensive sets (such as Boott's Carices), concerning groups in which 

 he had acquired an especial interest. He was more devoted, doubt- 

 less, to the Grarninere than to any other family. The few papers that 

 he published in the Proceedings of the California Academy* relate 

 mostly to the grasses, and his knowledge of the Californian species 

 must have been considerable, and, considering the facilities for their 

 study, very exact. We can judge how limited were the facilities 



*On Grasses in the Herbarium of the Academy, and Grasses found in 

 the vicinity of San Francisco, vol. ii, 177. Descriptions of New Plants, 

 1. c. 179. The Genus Melica, in California, 1. c. vol. iv, 101. The Genus 

 Stipa in California, 1. c. 108. 



Bolander was for a time in the early seventies editor of the California 

 Teacher, a monthly magazine. In volume xii may be found a series of 

 articles on botany for the schools, in which some of the most common 

 families of flowering plants are described and illustrated by full-page 

 drawings. 



