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Baby-Blue-Eyes is named in honor of him, Nemo- 

 phi I a Menziesii. 



From the time of Vancouver on, the British col- 

 lection of California plants has been continuously 

 added to, so that today, if a student wishes to study 

 the "type" of a plant, he goes to London for many 

 of them. When a scientist collects a new plant, he 

 classifies it and studies it; and, if it does not belong 

 to any known species, he considers it a new plant 

 and names it. This original specimen is called the 

 "type" of that plant. It seems wonderful today, 

 when all the scientists that collected them are long 

 dead and most of them unknown, that such frail 

 little plants as Baby-Blue-Eyes and Mimulus are as 

 good specimens to study the type from as they were 

 when picked over a hundred years ago. 



Under the Spanish and Mexican Governments, 

 the capital of California was Monterey, and every 

 vessel had to enter that port and register at the 

 Custom House before it received a permit to visit 

 other places on the Coast. For this reason, most of 

 the Coast plants gathered by visiting scientists were 

 taken from the vicinity of Monterey, and so Mon- 

 terey is known among botanists as the "type region" 

 of California. 



In addition to being the "type region/' Monterey 

 holds other and more important claims to the inter- 

 est of the botanist. It is the region where plants 



