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less interesting plants, a white Myosotis No. 190, LiliaceaeJNo, 

 192, Oenothera No. 194, a scarlet Aquilegia No. 198, Iris No. 

 204, and Ribes echinatum (1), the latter common in the sand 

 hills that surround the town. 



"On March the 23d I embarked in a small launch with Mr. 

 Cordua, who was proceeding to his farm in the Sacramento Val- 

 ley, and who kindly invited me to make his house my head- 

 quarters; an invitation which I gladly accepted, as from his 

 long residence in the country, and the situation of his farm, in 

 the centre of the valley, I anticipated many happy results. Late 

 in the afternoon of the following day we arrived at the Corte de 

 Madera, which, as the name implies, is a wood-cutting establish- 

 ment, where Mr. Cordua had some business to transact. Half 

 an hour's ramble in a fine grove of redwood trees furnished me 

 a brown, small flowering Martagon No. 218, Boraginea No. 217, 

 and Equisetum No. 219. The same night we left again, and 

 passing the following morning through the straits of Carquinez 

 into Suisun Bay, we entered the river Sacramento in the after- 

 noon. The aspect of the country is flat, presenting a boundless 

 field of rushes as far as the eye can reach, bordered on both sides 

 by a distant ridge of mountains, which from the severity of last 

 winter, presented a line of snow. The lowlands of the Sacra- 

 mento are subject to inundations during the spring months, and 

 are destitute of trees, with the exception of the banks, which 

 from the accumulation of soil during the inundations are higher 

 than the rushlands; a belt of trees and shrubs, varying from 

 thirty to two hundred yards in depth, extends along the banks, 



(1) Ribes occidentale H. & A. 



190 Allocarya Chorisiana (C. & S.) Greene 



192 MUILLA MARITIMA WatS. 



194 Oenothera ovata Nutt. 



1 98 AOIIILEGIA TRUNCATA F. & M. 



204 Iris longipetala Herb. 



2I<S FklTII.I.ARIA LANCEOLATA PlHsh. 

 217 CVNOCLOSSIM C.RAXDK DoUgl. 

 219 r^OriSETTM FM'VIATII.K L. 



