4 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN Botany No. 17 
So we started out with our rattle trap of an outfit and drove to Tia Juana 
and camped the first night. The next day we drove through the Valley of 
the Palms and botanized along the way. Charley Orcutt magnified his po- 
sition till he became intolerable, and he was always toadying to Parry and 
neglecting his duties. So I took his aside and reminded him that I was 
paying half the expenses and expected service from him, and would see that 
he gave it if I had to beat him up. He saw that I meant business and after 
a few days we reached Ensenada and camped along the beach. Parry 
at once ambled off to the town, and I went out on the hills to botanize. 
way down to Ensenada, when we all three were in the uggy I saw a new 
rose growing in the brush and stopped the team to get out and collect it. My 
eyesight was better than that of anyone in the party or they would have seen 
it. I unwisely showed my new discovery to Parry and he climbed out and 
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or traveled on Sunday, and so I wanted to remain there over the Sabbath, 
but Parry said he could not wait as he had urgent business in San Diego 
and had to get back at once. So he agreed to send Charley back in the 
morning with the team if I would not object to his going right in. Some 
months later on I found that Parry’s urgent business was to steal my new 
rose from me by sending it in to Engelmann and having it published before 
I could attend to it. This was Rosa minutiflora. 
permitted to drive the team till I had paid my bill. There was no bill due 
till I got to San Diego. So I leveled my pistol at him and told him to get 
out of the way, and he did in a hurry. So I drove in to San Diego and let 
