March ;, i, i()i i 29 



and is chicfl\- coiiipuseil of Oaks, I'l.ilaniis, Willows, Poplars, 

 Ash, Nco^undo Californiciiiii, Pavia Californica, Conius, a dwarf 

 Birch, and a ( fiape-N'inc. 



"After a Icdions i)rocfss of warpinj; np the lannch a^^ainst 

 a stron*^ cnrrent, we arrived at the landins^-place of Fort Sacra- 

 mento, on the 31st of March. An ineffectual attenipt at doub- 

 ling a point ao^ainst a strong head wind, during which we nar- 

 rowly escaped being cai)sized, determined Mr. Cordna to leave 

 the lannch and proceed by land; we accordingly disembarked at 

 the mouth of the American I'^)rk, and follov/ing llu.t stream 

 about si.x miles, we arrived at Mr. S's. Having procured lior.ses 

 the following morning, after a day and a half's ride we reached 

 Mr. Cordua's farm, situate on the left bank of the vSacramento 

 at the junction of the Chuba [Yuba] with the Feather river, 

 which twenty miles below falls into the Sacramento. 



"On April the 13th I left with Mr. L. for his farm, .seventy 

 miles higlier up in the valley. Mr. L. had been in the lower 

 country, and came up thus far with his goods in a large canoe, 

 and was now proceeding with them in waggons. Crossing Fea- 

 ther river, wdiich here is eighty yards broad, and of a consider- 

 able depth, our course lay five and twent)- miles along that river, 

 through a beautiful wood of evergreen and deciduous oaks: here 

 I found in sandy tracts, Leptosiplion No. 232, with white fra- 

 grant flowers; Collinsia, No. 238; C. bicolor, the latter in\-ari- 

 ably growing at the foot of large oaks. 



Leaving Feather river, we struck across the prairie for 

 twenty miles: here immen.se fields of Eschscholtzia crocea, E. 

 Californica, and Ranunculus, no 239, i)vesented themselves, each 

 species growing by itself, which with the plants observed on 

 Mr. Cordna's farm, and Lupinus nanus. Delphinium No. 205, 

 No. 236, Trifolium No. 237, Compositae Nos. 241, 242, 243, 



232 GiLiA i)iCHOTOM.\ Henth. 



238 Collinsia bartsiaefolia Benth. 



239 Ranunculus canus Benth. 



237 Trifolium albopurpureum T. »5\: G. 



241 Lagophvlla diciiotoma Benth. 



242 Achyrachaena mollis Schaner. 



243 Chaenactis heterocarpha Gray 



