THE 
HEW PflYTOhOGIST. 
Vol. XIII, No. io. 
December, 1914. 
[Published December 28th, 1914.] 
INTERNATIONAL PHYTOGEOGRAPHIC EXCURSION 
(I.P.E.) IN AMERICA, 1913. 
( concluded ). 
Monterey and Carmel. 
N September 15th most of the party left San Francisco for 
Monterey and Carmel, where Dr. MacDougal, Director of 
the Tucson Desert Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Wash¬ 
ington, took charge of the arrangements till practically the close of 
the tour at Tucson, Arizona, at the end of the month. Through Dr. 
Macdougal’s efforts a large grant was obtained from the Carnegie 
Institution for hospitality to the international party, and by his 
forethought, his genius for organisation, and the unremitting 
pains, attention and kindness which he lavished on the needs, both 
physical and intellectual, of his guests, this portion of the tour 
formed a most brilliant close to a brilliantly successful excursion. 
To Dr. MacDougal and to all his willing lieutenants, most particularly 
Dr. Cannon, Mr. Sykes and Dr. Forrest Shreve, the whole party lies 
under the deepest debt of gratitude. 
The Monterey-Carmel district is well-known as the home of 
a group of very local endemic species, of which the Monterey 
Pine ( Piuus radiata) and the Monterey Cypress ( Cupressus macro- 
carpa ) are the most conspicuous. Forest of the Monterey Pine 
covers the low dry hills near the coast between Monterey and 
Carmel, with chaparral or dry grassland in the more open places. 
Magnificent groves of Cupressus, many of the trees tortured by the 
wind into the queerest shapes, occur on the shallow rocky soil at 
Cypress Point, forming the outermost fringe of the pinewoods. 
Quercus agrifolia is very frequent, scattered through the dry grass¬ 
land. The landscape, especially between Carmel and Cypress 
Point, is very striking. The weird wind-forms of the trees, especially 
Quercus agrifolia—Pinus radiata seems to be almost unaffected by 
wind—and the colouring of the landscape in September produce an 
