Floristice work. — Pacihe coast. » 
lected in California; while some credited to California were, with little doubt, 
really from the East Indies or elsewhere. — ARCHIBALD MENZIES, who had 
earlier visited the northwest coast in 1786, in November and December 1792, 
visited San Francisco Bay, Santa Clara and Monterey, touching the coast again 
in 1793 and 1794. A set of his collections is in the British Museum, another 
at Kew, and a portion of his earlier collections, particularly the cryptogams, 
are in the herbarium of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. JOSEF MARIANO 
' MoCıNoO was on the coast in the year 1792. He afterward botanized in Mexico, 
especially in the northern parts, along with MARTIN Sgsse. The large collection 
of drawings which Mogino brought to Europe after the death of Sesse con- 
tains delineations of Californian species, but most of them are Mexican. This 
collection of twelve hundred drawings (cited as Ic. Fl. Mex. ined., and on which 
a number of genera and species were founded) was left by Mogino in the hands 
of DECANDOLLE and afterward suddenly reclaimed. It is said that the her- 
barium made by Mocıno and SESSE went to Madrid; but a portion was cer- 
tainly acquired by LAMBERT, and in the disposition of his collections is thought 
to have been acquired by the British Museum. GEORGE HEINRICH VON LANGS- 
DORF visited California in the Russian ship Juno, and it is supposed again in 
1824. His botanical collection was meagre. ADALBERT VON CHAMISSO, as 
in the expedition fitted out by Count ROMANZOFF, under Captain KOTZEBUE 
visiting California in 1816. Descriptions of the plants were published by Cha- 
misso and Schlechtendal in Linnaea, in ten volumes from 1825 to 1834, and 
by Eschscholtz in a paper entitled Descriptio Plantarum Novae Californiae in 
the Memoirs of the Academy of St. Petersburg in 1823. EsCHSCHOLTZ again 
accompanied Kotzebue on his second voyage to California, arriving in Sep- 
tember 1824. 
The English expedition under Captain BEECHEY A . 
California late in 1827. ALEXANDER COLLIE, surgeon to the expedition an 
G. TRADESCANT LAY made a collection of about one hundred and seventy- 
five species. The specimens in a bad shape were studied by HOOKER and 
ARNOTT and the results of their labors appeared in their Botany of Captain 
Beechey’s Voyage. Davıp DOUGLASS, a Scotch botanist, reached ee north- 
west coast early in 1825. He botanized extensively in Washington an = 
On a second trip from England, he again reached the coast in a in 
December of that year came to California, where he botanized a we 
County to Monterey. In ı832 he went by way of the nn ve e = 
the Columbia, back again to the Hawaiian group, where he lost his & we 
months later. An indefatigable collector, @ close observer and an enthusias . 
traveller he added more to the knowledge of the botany than all Eee 
who had gone before him. His Californian collections were er in 
in the supplement to the Botany of Captain Beechey’s Voyage, an ne Be 
Oregon and Washington in Hooxer’s Flora Boreali-Americana. u 5 
LinDL£v’s and BENTHAM’s herbaria contain sets of his Californian plan 
(1825 to 1828) reached 
