BOTANICAL COLLECTIONS IN CALIFORNIA. 559 



the Sierras, and especially in connection with Dr. C. C. Pakuy in 1878 abont San Ikrnanlino 

 and the borders of the adjacent desert. Dr. Kdwaiiu TaL-Mkr has visited Calilornia several 

 times, making very valnable collections in the .southern l)onlcrs of the State and northward to the 

 Mohave region and along the coast to Monterey, as well as on Guadalupe Island ami through 

 Western Arizona. Rev. E. L. Gurknk made small collections, but including nianv novelties, 

 about San Francisco and northward, and especially in Siskiyou County. Mr. Voi.ney Haitan, 

 of San Francisco, has collected in the Coast Ranges, northward to the Oregon line ; as also Mr. 

 G. U. Vasey, of Chicago, who visited the State to make siiecimcns, especially of wood.s, for the 

 Centennial E.xhibition. Sir Jo.ski-h 1). JIookick and Dr. Asa Guay were in California in 1877, 

 visiting Monterey, the Yoscmite Valley, and Mount Shasta. In Southern California, Mr. 1). 

 Cleveland, of San Diego, has communicafed much of interest respecting the plants of that' 

 place, of especial importance as the region where Nuttall had found many species. Dr. 

 J. T. RoTiiiiocK, in connection with Lieutenant Wheeler's survey, collected between Santa 

 Barbara and the head of Kern River. Mr. S. 15. Paimsii and Mr. W. G. Wnioirr at San Bernar- 

 dino, and Rev. J. C. Nkvin at Los Angeles, have all interested themselves in the botany of their 

 localities, and gathered as opportunity olfered, as has also Dr. W. Matthews, U. S. Army, 

 stationed at Camp Independence in Inyo County, and afterwards at Camp Bidwell in the north- 

 eastern jiart of the State. 



Mention should also be made of those whose collections, though not made within the State, 

 have been from so near its borders as to be of importance in showing the range of manv Califor- 

 nia species, and especially as indicating what species may still be expected to be <liscovere"d. Su.di 

 are the coUections made in connection with Lieutenant Wiieeleii's survey in Arizona and Nevada, 

 by Dr. Palmeii and Dr. Paiiuy in Arizona and Southern Utah; and by Mr. W. W. P.ailey 

 and Seueno Watson in Northern Nevada upon the survey of the 40th parallel under Clarence 

 Kino, while m Oregon very important collections have been made by E. Hall in 1871, and 

 inore recently by Rev. R. D. Neviu.s of The Dalles and Baker City, and Messrs. Jo.sepii and 

 THO.MAS J. Howell of Willamette Slough, and in Washington Territory by Mr. W. Suksdouf, 

 at White Salmon, and Mr. W. C. Cu.sicK, of Union. — S. W.J 



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