IN CALIFORNIA 11 



pedition of the Spaniard Alejandro Malaspina, 

 in search of the supposititious Northwest Passage, 

 touched at the ports of San Diego and Monterey. 

 With it was the Bohemian Thaddeus Haenke, a 

 botanist who had been collecting extensively in 

 South America. Specimens were obtained by this 

 expedition of California's two most characteristic 

 oaks the valley oak (Quercus lobata) and the coast 

 live oak (Quercus agrifolia). 3 It would seem, too, 

 that Haenke was the first botanist to collect speci- 

 mens of the redwood. The last named tree was 

 made known to science, however, from specimens 

 received from other hands, those of Archibald 

 Menzies, a Scotch botanist attached to the explor- 

 ing expedition of the Englishman, Captain George 

 Vancouver. Both Haenke and Menzies collected 

 their specimens from apparently the neighborhood 

 in which the Spanish pioneers of 1769 had first no- 

 ticed the redwood. 



Vancouver made two or three stops at different 

 times at California ports. The first was in Novem- 

 ber, 1792, when he spent some time in the harbor of 

 San Francisco, and he has left a record of what was 

 probably the first Anglo-Saxon picnic on California 

 soil. He had secured permission from the Spanish 



3 In the language of Spanish-Californians the valley oak, which is 

 deciduous, is called roble, and the live oak, encino or encina. These 

 words are not infrequent in Californian geographical terms to-day. 



