BOTANICAL COLLECTIONS IN CALIFORNIA. TjoO 



tlie Sierras, and especially in connection with Dr. C. C. Pahky in 1878 ahont !^an Bt-rnanliiio 

 ami the borders of the adjacent desert. Dr. EnwAKD I'almki: has visited Calilornia .scvtial 

 times, making very valnahle collections in the southern borders of the SUitc and nortliwanl to the 

 JNIohave region and along the coast to Monterey, as well as on (Uia.lalupe island an>l througli 

 "Western Arizona. Rev. E. L. (Jim;i;m-, made small collections, Imt including many novelties, 

 about San Francisco and northward, and especially in Siskiyou County. Mr. Viilnky IiAITAN, 

 of San Francisco, has collected in the Coast Ranges, northwaid to the Oregon line ; a.s also Mr. 

 G. R. Vasey, of Chicago, who visited the State to make specimens, especially of woods, for the 

 Centennial Exhibition. Sir Joseph D. Houkei: and. Dr. Asa Guay were in California in 1^77, 

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

 Cleveland, of San Diego, has communicated nnich of interest respecting the plants of that 

 j)lace, of especial importance as the region where Nuttall had found many sjK?cies. Dr. 

 J. T> UoTiiiiouK, in connection with Lieutenant Wheeler's survey, coUectetl l)etween Santa 

 Barbara and the head of Kern River. Mr. S. B. Pauish and Mr. W. G. \Vi:u;nT at San Bernar- 

 dino, and Rev. J. C. Nevin at I^os Angeles, have all interested themselves in the botany of their 

 localities, and gathered as op))ortunity olferetl, as has also Dr. W. MArriiEWs, L'. S. Army, 

 stationed at Camp Independence in Inyo County, and afterwards at Cami» Bidwell in the noith- 

 eastern part 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 many Califor- 

 nia species, and especially as indicating what species may still be expected to be discovered. Sueh 

 are the collections made in connection with Lieutenant Wheeleu'.s survey in Arizona ami Nevada, 

 by Dr. Palmer and Dr. Pahuy in Arizona and Southern Utah; and by Mr. W. W. Baii.ry 

 and Seueno Watscjn in Northern Nevada upon the survey of the -lOth parallel vinder Clahencr 

 King, while in Oregon very important collections have been made by E. Hai.l in 1871, and 

 more recently by Rev. R. D. Nevius of The Dalles and Baker City, and Messrs. .Iosei-ii and 

 Thomas J. Howell of Willamette Slough, and in Washington Territory by Mr. W. Slksdokk, 

 at White Salmon, and Mr. W. C. CusicK, of Union. — S. W. j 



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