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of the young wood, are each enclosed in separate cells, and are 

 of the same size and shape as the beech-nnt. The kernel is 

 pleasant to eat, resembling the filbert in flavor. 



"On Angnst the 13th I retnrned to Monterey, and was once 

 more laid np with fever and ague, from which I did not recover 

 until the beginning of September. 



"On September the 6th I went again over to Santa Crnz in 

 quest of pine cones, which were now ripening. The sorts I 

 procured were Abies Douglasii, Pinuscalifornica, and P. Benth- 

 amiana. The cones of the latter were unusually scarce this sea- 

 son, and seem to have suffered from late spring frosts. A few 

 cones were all I could procure of this sort. They were smaller 

 than those of the preceding year, and contained but few good 

 seeds. 



"On September the 20th I again left IMonlerey for the south- 

 ern parts, which, on account of the disturbed state of last year, 

 I could not visit before. As guide I engaged the services of a 

 man who had accompanied me on my last excursion to Santa 

 Cruz, and who, from his profession as a hunter, was well ac- 

 quainted with the intricate mountain paths of the district I in- 

 tended to visit. On the day of our starting we reached the mis- 

 sion of La Solidad, an ill constructed, half ruined building, sit- 

 uate in the Salinas valley, and encamped towards evening on 

 the banks of the Salinas river, within a short distance of the 

 mission. 



"By sunrise the following morning we were again on horse- 

 back, and leaving the main road on the right, we entered a 

 mountain defile leading to the mission of San Antonio. Here 

 I observed a shrubby Arctostaphylos, with large brown seeds; a 

 half climbing Caprifolium (C. no. 133), profusely covered with 

 scarlet berries; an evergreen shrubby oak [Q. No. 8); and a sub- 

 deciduous oak (Q. No. 7), the latter forming a tree thirty feet 

 high. 



"From San Antonio a range of mountains extends along 

 the coast, attaining a great elevation, which, although appar- 

 ently barren as seen from tlie missic^n, I was assured on the 



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