32 THr West AMERICAN SCIENTIST. 
first of a long series of excursions together, visiting the Cuyamaca 
mountains east of San Diego, Buckman’s Soda Springs, Campo, 
and other points of interest. The same species of brakes that 
grew in the Vermont woods and many familiar plants greeted us 
in these mountains, but among the things of greatest interest to 
my father were the wide spreading live oaks bearing their im- 
mense acorns, the great sugar pines—measuring 7 ft. in diameter 
at a man’s hight from the ground, the huge solid cones of Coulter’s 
pine, the mistletoe, and countless other things unknown to Ver- 
mont woods which nature offered for our inspection. 
In the small collection of dried plants made on this first trip 
were specimens of the then unknown plant, Cordylanthus Nevin- 
ianus—later collected by the Rev. J.C.Nevin, of Los Angeles. 
Im April ass2 athe late Diagi@C. Parry, ©) Ca eanilesanal 
the writer visited Todos Santos bay, Baja California, discovering 
many new things on the not uneventful trip. In the following 
June my father and I made a shorter trip together to the Guada- 
lupe valley, Baja California, where, in climbing one of the 
mountain slopes, we found a small variegated flower, which Dr. 
Parry soon after named Gilia Orcuttii. 
In August and September my father and family, with a few 
friends, made a camping trip into the Cuyamaca mountains, 
where the pure mountain water and odor of pine trees were 
thoroughly enjoyed by all. 
October found us together on another botanical excursion in 
the mountains of Baja California. Our trip was successful in the 
securing of seeds and plants of the new Agave Pringlei, for which 
the trip was specially planned. We also collected seeds of the 
pinyone pine (Pinus Parryana) and gathered many interesting 
plants, among them a new Dalea with pretty purple flowers, 
later named by Prof. Watson, D. Orcuttii. Nolina Palmeri and 
Quercus Palmeri, Q. Emoryi and Q. pungens (Q. turbinella) were 
also collected; the brilliant flowers of. Loeselias carpeted the for- 
est glades, and the autumn flora was resplendent with beauty. 
In January, 1883, 2 party consisting of Dr. and Mrs. Parry, 
W.G. Wright, Miss Rosa Smith (now Mrs. C. H. Higenmann), 
my father and me, visited ‘Todos Santos bay together, the main 
object being the collection of a stock of roots of the new Mexican 
rose (Rosa minutifolia), discovered the previous spring. Many 

