Bolander, Henry N. 
1867, April 25th 
San Francisco, Calif. 
TRANSLATION 
San Francisco, April 25th, 1867 
Dear Doctor, 
I have received your letter of the 6th of last month. 
The acorns of the Qu. Agrifolia I sent were comparatively small. On the east 
side of the bay they are larger and.then correspond very well with Torrey's 
oxyadenia. The two oaks agrifolia & Wislizeni are very similar. I never found 
them growing together. About the respective distribution«I talked in a previous 
letter and until today I have found nothing to change my statements. It is 
remarkable to find more and more points to the effect that California is very 
similar to the Mediterranean countries. It is well known that this similarity 
is especially strong as far as the cryptogams are concerned. 
One of these lumbermen or logmen in Mendocino Co. do not want to know about any 
similarity and indeed, the growth there is different. Especially the trees differ 
in the bark. The local ones have a cinnamon red color while the eastern have 
a greyish one. This cinnamon red color you find especially striking in the young 
trees. The branches are extremely thin and slender and are growing out 
horizontally. 
P. Balfouriana is undoubtedly a good species; the cones I saw were very 
characteristic and are recognizable at first sight. A good picture together with 
that of Jeffersonia flexilis, Murrayana you will find (together with a description) 
in the report of the Oregon Committee Scotland. It is the society which sent 
Jeffrey here to collect seeds. The report is important for you. Dr. Gray can 
certainly help you. 
Torreyana I saw here once in a seed store, since then never again. The 
two cones were sent to Paris. 
From a letter from Prof. Palatore I saw that he made a new species P. Bojanderi 
from the varieties of the muricata or contorta which I sent to Canby, Wilmington 
(also to De Candolle and to yoü). TI am convinced that this is a mistake. It is 
very difficult to convince botanists outside of California of the variability of 
our species here. The local plants must be studied very carefully. The more I am 
out there with them, the more I see the changes and the manifold formations. 
About Prof. Wood I talked in our Academy only in public papers and sent 
a copy to Prof. Braun. 
If a man calls himself a famous botanist and is recognized as such by many, 
then I at least expect that he does not bring a common Ranunculus $o Dr. Kellogg 
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