CUPULIFEEiE. 



SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



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ploring expedition, under the command of Malaspina, had visited the coast of California, and the. 



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of 



French botanist, Louis Nee,* who accompanied it, pubHshed in 1801 the first scientific desci 

 Quercus lohata and of several other Californian and Mexican Oaks. 



Like other California Oaks, Quercus lohata does not flourish beyond the borders of its native 

 state, and the attempts that have been made to establish it in eastern America and in Europe have not 

 been successful. 



adorned with the neat habitations of an industrious people, to pro- through Chile, crossed the pampas to Montevideo, and embarked 

 duce a scene not inferior to the most studied effect of taste in the for Spain, reaching Cadiz in 1794 with an herbarium of ten thousand 

 disposal of grounds." {A Voyage of Discovery round the World, ii. species, of which four thousand are believed to have been unde- 



17.) 



scribed, Nde's tastes led him to gather material rather than to 



^ Louis Nde, a Frenchman naturalized in Spain, began his scien- publish the results of bis field labors, and his long journey had few 



tific career by making large collections of plants in different parts literary results. He is chiefly to be remembered by the genus 



of that country ; and in July, 1789, he left Cadiz as naturalist of the Neea, dedicated to him by Ruiz and Pavon, by a few short papers 



exploring expedition sent by the Spanish government under com- published in the annals of the Scientific Society of Madrid, in- 



mand of Malaspina. Nde made collections of plants in the neigh- eluding one on Oaks, in wbich are the first scientific descriptions of 



borhood of Montevideo, on the coast of Patagonia, on the Island of California trees, and by the fact that he and Haenke were the first 



Chiloe, in Cbile, — where he was joined by the Bohemian botanist, botanists who visited California. Of the date and place of Nde's 



Thaddaeus Haenke, — Peru, Mexico, and California. In Mexico, the birth there is no record, and nothing has been published about his 



botanists penetrated inland to the capital, and then returning to the career after his return to Europe from his journey in America. His 



coast, sailed with the expedition to the Philippine Islands and New herbarium is preserved in the Botanic Garden at Madrid. (See 



Holland. Sailing again to South America, they finally left the ship Colmeiro, La Botanica y los Botanicos de la Peninsula Hispano-Lusi- 



at Callao, and going to Lima, separated there. Nde then traveled tano^ 183.) 



