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glossum Calijornicum, which remained known only from his 

 single specimen, until 1882, when it was re-discovered at the 

 type station by its original collector and Daniel Cleveland. In 

 the same neighborhood he found the first specimen of the little 

 Saxifraga Parryi, and at San Luis Rev the type of Microseris 

 platycarpa. Somewhere in the mountains east of San Diego he 

 gathered Frasera Parryi, Phacelia Parryi, Pentstemon ternatus and 

 Hulsea calijonuca, and at San Felipe Condalia Parryi. Los 

 Angeles also was visited, where Ceanothus crassijolius was first 

 secured. Dr. J. L. LeConte was visiting San Diego at this time, 

 and his attention had been attracted by a peculiar pine tree, 

 growing on the coast bluffs at Soledad. At his suggestion Dr. 

 Parry visited Soledad, and found the pine to be an undescribed 

 species, which he named in honor of Dr. Torrey, the honored 

 friend and instructor of the two discoverers. 



Early in 1851 Dr. Parry returned overland to El Paso, 

 Texas, and it was not until 1876 that he re-visited California. 

 Then, in company, for a part of the time, with the enthusiastic 

 J. G. Lemmon, and the veteran Edward Palmer, he spent sev- 

 eral months in the San Bernardino region. This was almost a 

 virgin field, having been barely touched by Antisell and by 

 Cooper, whose collections were small and unimportant. * To 

 Parry and Lemmon it yielded a rich harvest of new species, as 

 well as of plants then rare and little known. Dr. Parry made his 

 headquarters at Crafton, a ranch a few miles east of the present 

 Redlands, the site of which town and its embosoming orange 

 groves was then an open sheep range. On the borders of the 

 zanja which flowed by the ranch, he found a saxifragaceous 

 plant, which had come down the stream from its mountain 

 source, and which he afterwards named Boykinia rotundifolia; 

 and on the nearby stony plains the type of Chorizanthe Parryi 

 an abundant plant of this valley. 



* Dr. Thomas Antisell was the geologist of Park's Pacific Railroad survey, 1854-5, 

 He collected a large number of plants along the route of the survey, which, in California,, 

 extended from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and thence by the Cajon Pass to Soda Lake, 

 in the Mojave desert, and afterwards from San Diego to the mouth of the Gila river. To 

 the report of the survey he contributed a list of the plants collected by him, under the title, 

 "Synoptical Table of BotanicalLocalities. " Those relating to Southern California are a 

 list of 104 plants from "Los Angeles, San Gabriel and San Bernardino plains," and of ten 

 from the "Desert of the Colorado." They are of interest as the first published lists of 

 Southern California plants. 



Dr. J. G. Cooper was geologist on the Geological Survey of California from December 

 1860, to April, 1862. He did some work along the coast, at San Diego, San Pedro, Santa 

 Barbara and the Coast Islands, and also examined the Colorado Valley near Fort Mojave. 

 He collected a few plants between Cajon Pass and Camp Cody in 1861. 



