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you a brief notice of the country. This 
letter I hope you would receive about New 
Year’s Day, 1832.1 The Hudson Bay 
Company’s vessel did not arrive on the 
coast of California in November, as had been 
expected, which, in some measure, frus- 
trated my projects. No opportunity having 
offered for proceeding, either to the Colum- 
bia or the Sandwich Islands in the winter 
or spring of last year. I continued to con- 
sider California as still new to me, and set 
to work a second time, finding new plants, 
and drying better specimens of those which 
I formerly possessed. I think that T added 
not less than one hundred and fifty unde- 
Scribed species this year, including some 
new genera, which will bring up the entire 
amount of flowering plants to scarcely less 
than seven thousand distinct species. I 
might have effected more; but being in 
constant dread of a vessel arriving, and 
sailing without me, I could not venture to 
be absent more than fifteen or twenty days 
at a time from the coast; however, as I 
did my best, I try to feel content. 
I will now mention another new Pinus 
to you (P. venusta), which I discovered 
last March, on the high mountains of Cali- 
fornia (you will begin to think that I ma- 
nufacture Pines at my pleasure). As my 
notes are not at hand, I must describe from 
memory. 
Leaves solitary, two-ranked, rigid, sharp- 
pointed, green above, glaucous beneath. 
Cone cylindrical, three to four inches long, 
and four to six inches round, erect; scales 
orbicular, deciduous (like those of P. bal- 
samea), with an entire bractea or append- 
age between the scales, exserted to three 
or four inches and a half! When on the 
tree, being in great clusters and at a great 
height withal, these cones resemble the in- 
florescence of a Banksia, a name which I 
should have liked to give to the species, 
but that there is a Pinus Banksii already. 
This tree attains a great size and height, and 
is, on the whole, a most beautiful object. It 
is never seen at a lower elevation than six 
thousand feet above the level of the sea, 
-` This, the letter immediately preceding, did not 
. arrive till April. 
MR. DOUGLAS’ SECOND VISIT TO THE COLUMBIA:  — 
"would be peculiarly gratifying tO 
Tk 
EX Vu 
in latitude. 36°, where it is motu 
mon. Yd 
I saw for a second time, and ina 
Upper California. 
condition, though perhaps a little too y: 
and somewhat longer than those Ih 
covered further to the North in 1896, 
timber in this new situation is the 
of all, but by no means so fine as- 
the 43°, and 45° of N. latitude, whe 
temperature is doubtless more coi 
to it.. ‘I have a host of new and be 
plants; among them a fine perennial 
cies of Delphinium, D. cardinalis 
flowers as fine as those of Lychnis fi 
and seven undescribed kinds of Ca 
tus, which make that noble genus to cor 
in all, of twelve species [including C 
bothrya.—E»p.]. 
From the Sandwich Islands, I sh 
on board the Sarah and Elizabeth, a 9 
Seaman of London, and boun 
port, nineteen large bundles of dry 
in two chests, together with seeds, 
mens of timber, &c. The Captain, à 
thy little man, placed these articles ^ 
own cabin, which gives great relief to 
be despatched without delay, and fu 
“ begging that they will permit me tot 
fer the publication of each and ât 
plants, saving those which the Soc 
consider as coming within their plans, 
that gentleman, either for an Appel 
his Flora Boreali-Americana, 0r 1n 
other works in which he may be € 
No one is more able and willing to ^ 
Society justice, while such a pU?" 
2 [ need scarcely say that this generous wit 
part of poor Douglas, has been to the f zi 
complied with, by the Horticultural e "s 
merits of this zealous Naturalist will : 
evident, when I shall lay the account wd 
the public, in the ** €. ion lo the P>” 
zine." The materials are in a consi 
