Lake Co., Cal., to Baja California; Nevada. A beautiful ornamental shrub* 

 well-known in many European gardens. 



Fremontodendron Californicum Coville, CNH 4:74 (1893). Parsons, 

 W Fls Cal 162 t. 



Cheiranthodendron Californicum Baill, Hist PI. 4:70. 



Katharine Brandegee, Zoe 1:82, reports from Santa Clara Co., Cal. 

 STYRAX [Tournefort] Linnaeus, Syst ed 1 (1735). 



An Asiatic and American genus, warm-temperate or tropical with 

 scurfy or stellate-downy herbage and mostly handsome fls. Cx persistent, 

 truncate campanulate, the border merely denticulate or irregularly toothed, 

 in the North American species coherent at its base with that of the 3-celled 

 many-ovuled ovary: cor of 5 or sometimes 4-8 soft-downy pet, which are 

 united at base into a very short tube, decid: sta 10: fil flat, monadelphous 

 at base into a short tube which is coherent with the base of the cor: anth 

 linear, 2-celled, fixed by the base, introse; the cells opening lengthwise: 

 sty filiform: fr globular, its base girt by the persistent cx, at first rather 

 fleshy, at maturity dry, commonly splitting into 3 valves, 1-eelled, filled 

 with a single large globular seed, which resembles a small nut; the sd-coat 

 being thick and crustaceous: embryo nearly the length of the fleshy 

 albumen: cotyledons broad and flat: radicle slender. 



S. Calif ornica Torrey, Smithson Contr 6:4 (1854); Pacific Ry R 4:118. 

 Brewer and Watson, Bot Cal 1:470. 



A handsome shrub 5-8 ft hi: lvs ovate or oval, 1-2% i long, obtuse at 

 both ends, entire, minutely stellately pubescent, at least when young, and 

 even hoary beneath: fls much larger than in any of these of the Atlantic 

 states, except the Texan S. plantanifolia Engelmann, few in a cluster or 

 corymbose raceme, on a short terminal peduncle: pedicels clubshaped: di- 

 visions of the white soft-downy cor 5-8 spatulate-lanceolate (%i or more 

 in length), imbricated in the bud: fll monadelphous nearly to the middle: 

 bony sd y 2 i in diam. First collected by Fremont and occurs from Fall- 

 brook (Parry, in Orcutt herb 808) to the upper Sacramento river. 



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MISSIONS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY. 



Historical interest always clings about "first" things and places, and 

 hence San Diego has long been a spot to which people of a studious turn of 

 mind, as well as the casual tourist, have come, for it was here that the first 

 mission in Alta California was founded. San Diego county was also des- 

 tined to have within its borders another mission and a branch of the latter. 



It was in 1542 that Juan Roderiguez Cabrillo, a Portuguese, sailing 

 under the Spanish flag, discovered the beautiful bay which has now gained 

 a world-wide reputation as a land-locked harbor. He gave it the name of 

 San Miguel, and as such it was known on the charts for some sixty years, 

 when Sebastian Vizcanio sailed into and explored it. He changed its name 

 to San Diego, and this name has since been used. One authority states that 

 Vizcaino selected this name because it was that of his flag-ship, while an- 

 other says that he finished his surveys of the bay on November 12th, the 

 church calendar day of St. Jame3 of Alcala, a saint of the order of Capu- 

 chins, and so used the name in the latter's honor. 



For nearly one hundred and seventy years the shores of the bay re- 

 mained untrod by the feet of white men. Then, in 1769, Gaspar de Portola, 

 governor of Lower California, and Padre Junipero Serra, president of the 

 Franciscan missions in the same territory, with naval, military and ecclesi- 

 astic attendants, reached the spot after a journey from the peninsula which 

 had been full of vicissitudes. On July 16tfc, the day of the Triumph of the 

 Most Holy Cross, the members of the expedition set to work to erect an altar 

 and to bang the bells. Thus was the mission founded. Its site was at what 



