CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY NO. 15 77 



the 1927 sets, and 275 in the 1926 sets. That is the first set in each 

 year contained diat number of specimens. 



The first requisite in the study of a region is a good map. The 

 Hydrographic Survey of the Government has a good coast line map. This 

 map was copied by Brandegee and by Goldmann in their reports on 

 Lower California, but no attempt was made to put in mountains or set- 

 tlements not visited by than. A few years ago the National Geographic 

 society put out a pretentious one, claiming that it was accurate, but it is 

 a farce, the mountains have been sketched in by the map maker wihtout 

 regard to fact Therefore a person going to that region has to make the 

 first trip blind. I have been down the entire coast on bofli sides except 



north of Santa 



be 



which took me till June. Then I bundled a complete set of at! my plants 

 into an auto and struck out for Berkeley to compare my material with that 



of the Brandegee herbarium there. 



I spent five very busy weeks at Berkeley till I had determined the 

 names of most of my species except the new ones. Then a return to 



Claremont 

 consumed 



the literature followed, which 

 ►pent much of 



m making out a complete list of all the plants known to e^cist m the 

 entire region. The results of all this work are embodied in this report. 

 custom officials did not bother me nor ask any questions, nor did the 

 steamer officers list my baggage as frei^t, as I ha-d feared fltcy would. 



Americans on board, when 

 hat it would be different \ 



Well 



Pedro I showed my ipapers and the inspectors passed me wiiiiout 



tion. 



BOTANISTS IN :MEXIC0 



The first botanizing of any moment was done about 100 jraxs a?o by 

 men from British steamships that visited the coast, Tlie expedition of 

 Captain Beechy visited San Bias Nayarit (then called Tepic) ?nd went as 

 far inland as the city of Tepic, botanizing along the \\^y- Mr. T.ay was 

 the botanist. His collecti<m was rqjorted on by HooTcer a^d Arnot 

 Zantus was another botanist who spent considerable time at San Jose del 

 Cabo about the same period, and at Santa Magdalena Bay. This report 

 was by Bentham, called botany of the Sulphur. Not long after Hfis Hart- 

 weg made large collections in Chihuahua and his plants were descritxd m 

 Plantae Hartweigianae. Dr. Coulter made a trip along our soufhcrii bor- 

 der a little later. Then the Mexican Boundary Sur\'ey in the fif6« made 



specimens along our southern border 

 destribed in that report. Alnxit the s;iine time Wright and l^^iiliz* nus 

 made collections in northern Mexico. Also Thurber. These were descrilicd 

 by Gray and Torrey. Various expeditions or visits were made by Califor- 

 nians along the Coast of Lower California by men more or less connected 

 ^\ith the great cold msh in the late forties and Cities, and these .f^ecimcns 



