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Very little botanical collecting has been done in the state, except 
what was done by Dr. Sereno Watson principally in the north- 
eastern portion of the state in 1868 and 1869, during the expedi- 
tion commanded by Clarence King ; by Dr. Edward Palmer and 
Dr. C. C. Parry in the extreme southwestern part, the former in 
1870 and 1877, the latter in 1874; and by Professor Marcus E. 
Jones, a resident botanist of Salt Lake City. The regions west 
and southwest of Great Salt Lake are practically unknown, and 
the same can almost be said about the part of the state southeast 
of the Colorado River. My intention was to spend most of the 
time in the district southwest of Great Salt Lake along the new 
San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad. My plans 
were changed later, however, for reasons given below. 
A round trip ticket to San-Francisco and Los Angeles at the 
time of my starting, cost only a few dollars more than one hs 
Salt Lake City. I therefore bought a ticket reading ove 
two first mentioned places, especially as you thought it 8 
to visit the California Academy of Sciences and make arrange- 
ment for exchanges with that institution. 
On my way I stopped for a day at Laramie, Wyoming, to 
make a visit to the State University. I spent a very pleasant 
time with Professor Aven Nelson and saw nearly all of the types 
of his new species, of which. there are not cotypes in the her- 
barium of the Garden. ae will help me as in my 
work on a manual of Rocky Mountain botan 
On the third of June I se at Salt Lake City, Awaiting the 
arrival of Professor E. C. rae of Gustavus Adolphus aes 
St. Peter, Minn., who was to act as my assistant Hae ees the sum 
mer, I set out to collect in the a. of Salt Lake City. During 
these trips I was usually accompanied by eee O. Garrett, of 
the Salt Lake City high school. Although Professor Garrett's 
botanical interests are directed in a different line from mine, his 
speciality being the rusts and smuts, this collaboration I think 
was of mutual benefit. The foot-hills and outer mountains facing 
the Salt Lake Valley are Rows destitute of woods. 
are, however, covered m or less by shrubs, in some places 
scattered, in others ae ee chaparrals. These are mostly 
