Bolander, Henry N. 



1865,, August 22nd 

 San Francisco, Call f. 



TRANSLATION 



San Francisco, August 22nd, I865 



Dear Doctor, 



Your letter of July 5rd reached me within two days. I shall again collect 

 Ohara and I hope to send these with fruits to your friend. I shall continue to 

 collect the oak seeds in question in large quantities. Since you are so interesed 

 in this matter, I shall see whether I may be able to determine the limits of the 

 various species. 



It is, of course, understood that I shall include the conifers, since the 

 Situation is similar. 



Virburnum species do not exist here, and I believe not anywhere in California. 

 Of Cornus species, I saw four l)C. Nuttallii , a wonderful species, jewel in our 

 forests and would be a great Ornament to any parks or grounds, 2) C. puchescens 

 Nutt. is found here quite often; it is a large shrub of great size with sometimes 



white berries; 3) Cornus ? may be stricta, at least it looks very much 



like it. I found it frequently on creek shores in the northern coastal mountains, 

 also 27 miles aouth of here near my pond at Searsville. 



And at this point I remember that we have a fourth species and J- collected 

 this myself this spring in the Sierra. C. sepilis Torr. This is also a high shrub. 

 Since I have a friend there, I might be able to obtain for you the hitherto un- 

 known fruit of this species; since I hope to collect the fruit of the first three 

 species mentioned this Fall. ^^ 



I al -eady had a friend collect Jur.'^'^ tinctoria near Geyersville. 

 I called the oak Moribus because it looked in every way like the one which 

 I collected at Clear Lake, however, it did not have serrated leaves. After all, 

 those serrated leaves are a special occurrence; they remind me very much of my 

 grafted tree. Dr. K. must have had such branches. The whole matter makes it 

 desirable that I should gc to his locality in order to lock at the matter more 

 closely. 



Cur J.? egrifalis is always green, never without leaves, and I could not 

 even detect a diminishing. Its foliage faere ) is unusaally thick. Whether this 

 is the result of the fog and humidity, I do not know. The other is just the 

 opposite (light, sprace foliage) and at least here and there, with crenated 

 marginal leaves, easily discernible, even strikingly marked. 



