BOTANY OF CEDROS ISLAND. 199 
given it by Dr. Gray, as the type of a new genus, Veatchia, 
I am not over confident that it is not, what Dr. Kellogg at first 
called it, a genuine Rhus. But we shall hope for better 
material of it within a few years; for, although it was 
supposed to be endemie upon Cedros, I am well assured by 
an intelligent sailor, that the same tree is common enough on 
the islands that lie within the Gulf of California; moreover, 
Mr. W. G. W. Harford has informed me that he saw it on the 
southern part of the peninsula of Lower California. I was 
even half expecting that Dr. Palmer would have found it 
during his recent botanical explorations on the Sonora side 
of the gulf; but in this I have been disappointed. 
My three days of botanizing on this island yielded only 
some eighty species of plants; but that is a considerable 
number to be found at about the most unfavorable time of 
the year, on an island which has uniformly been reported to 
ba as nearly devoid of vegetation as can be imagined. My 
explorations were restrieted within very narrow limits, em- 
bracing only a very insignificant fraction of the island's whole 
area. I suppose that if a zealous botanieal collector could 
get there, earrying with him all the means of subsistence, and 
retaining the ability to travel over its sharp and lofty hills and 
through its many scores of canons, during all the late summer 
and early autumnal months, that is, during the showery time of 
the year, he would perhaps raise tie list of species of flower- 
ing plants and shrubs up to the number of three or four 
hundred. 
Of the twenty-five species obtained by Dr. Veatch during 
his stay there in 1859, only three or four were not rediscovered 
by myself; and these which rest on his authority alone, I 
indicate in my list, by an asterisk. I omit from the catalogue 
the name of * Veatchia crystallina, Kell.” which is Triteleia 
hyacinthina (Lindl.), Greene, because I think the ascription 
of that plant to this place was an error. Dr. Kellogg knew 
it only from plants cultivated in San Francisco ; and culti- 
vators are too apt to lose or to confuse their records of the 
origin of bulbs and corms. 
