4 WITH THE FLOWERS AND TREES 



considerable oak wood, other trees which seemed 

 like rosemary (otros drboles que se parecian al 

 romero), and some fragrant and wholesome herbs." 

 That reference to a tree resembling rosemary 

 (romero) is very tantalizing, for one would mightily 

 like to know just what one that was, of all the Cali- 

 fornia sisterhood of plants, that first found favor 

 enough in pioneer eyes to be mentioned in the rec- 

 ord. Viscaino called it an "arbol," a word that is 

 usually Englished as "tree," but is also applicable 

 to a shrub. To-day upon those southern hills, there 

 grow at least two shrubby plants whose haunting 

 fragrance of leaf might have reminded those Span- 

 ish wanderers of the rosemary of their Mediter- 

 ranean homeland. One is a sort of sage known 

 to botanists as Audibertia Clevelandi; and the other, 

 which bears foliage very like our rosemary, is the 

 Spanish Calif ornian's "romero de la sierra," 

 mountain rosemary, or, botanically, Trichostema 

 lanatum. In default of exact description, for there 

 was no scientist with Viscaino 's expedition, it is 

 anybody's guess now, and so it must be left. 



After Viscaino, it is almost two centuries to be 

 exact, in the spring of 1769, with the arrival at San 

 Diego of the first ship of Galvez's Holy Expedition 

 for the settlement and Christianization of Upper 

 California before the curtain really rises upon the 



