10 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 
ty was H. C. Orcutt of San Diego, assisted by his son ©. R. Or- 
eutt. Here it is that the younger Orcutt acquired, under the in- 
fluence of Dr. Parry, an interest in collecting plants and turned 
plant collector for life. Another member of the party was C. G. 
Pringle, a prince of plant-collectors, whose name was well-known 
to botanists everywhere‘. 
‘“The Orcutts were Sabbattarians and when it came the Lordsday 
they proposed, as a matter of course, that neither man nor beast 
should should travel. A fifth member of the party drew a gun 
Jepson resorts to bald-faced lying and distortion of facts to 
