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observed an Allium ; Pentstemon, No. 368 ; Statice, No. 369 ; 

 Phlox, No. 380 ; and a Calochortus — the latter not yet in flower. 

 The more elevated parts above Bear Valley, from the severity 

 of last winter, were still several feet deep, covered with snow, 

 for which reason we returned hence by the same road we 

 came. 



Immediately upon my arrival at head-quarters, I proceeded 

 once more to the Upper Sacramento Valley to collect such seeds 

 as I could not procure before. 



Having packed up my collections, and sent part by water to 

 San Francisco, I left on the 30th of June for Monterey, in com- 

 pany with an American whom I had engaged as guide. Towards 

 evening of the same day Ave arrived at the junction of the Feather 

 river with the Sacramento ; and passing, the following morning, 

 our luggage over in a canoe, we swam the horses across, the dis- 

 tance from shore to shore being not less than 300 yards. We 

 now continued our course over the prairie on the right bank of 

 the Sacramento river for two days, and crossed again to the south 

 side in a ferry-boat, at the Straits of Carquinez. 



A kind of tertian fever, accompanied by violent headache, 

 under which I had been suffering some days previous to my de- 

 parture, here developed itself into a quotidian fever and ague, 

 whicli for want of proper medicines, the constant exposure to a 

 tropical sun during the day, and camping out at night, soon re- 

 duced me to such a state of debility as scarcely to be able to sit 

 on liorseback. 



From the Straits of Carquinez we passed along the Bay of 

 San Francisco to the Pueblo of San Jose, and reached Monterey 

 on the 8th of July. 



Soon after my arrival (having, with the assistance of my little 

 medicine-chest, cured myself), I continued my excursions about 

 Monterey as far as my returning strength permitted, and col- 

 lected such kinds of seeds as I thought worth preserving. To- 

 wards the end of July I went over to Santa Cruz for a similar 

 purpose, and whilst visiting a family upon their farm, with whom 

 I had become intimately acquainted during their winter I'esidence 

 in Monterey, I was again taken ill with fever and ague. In addi- 

 tion to the seeds which I collected in the Santa Cruz mountains 

 last year, I found the evergreen Chestnut with ripe fruit. This 

 shrub, of which I had been most anxious to procure seeds, attains 

 the height of ten feet, and is of a pyramidal form. The nuts, 

 which are produced in prickly clusters on the points of the young 

 wood, are each enclosed in separate cells, and are of the same 

 size and shape as the beech-nut. The kernel is pleasant to eat, 

 resembling the filbert in flavour. 



On August the 13th I returned to Monterey, and was once 



