La menthe aquatique, probably Mentha canadensis L. 
Le the du Mexique, Micromeria Chamissonis (Benth.) Greene. Yerba 
Buena. 
La millefeuille, Achillea Millefolium L. Milfoil or Yarrow. 
7. Viaje folitico-cientifico alrededor del mundo for las cor betas Des- 
cubiertay Atrevida al mando de los cafitanes de navio y D. AlejandroMa- 
lasfinay Don Jose de Bustamante y Guerra desde 1789 a 1794 > published 
with an introduction by Pedro de Nova y Colson, Madrid, 1885, gives the 
account of this expedition. Excerpts from this work were printed in the 
California Historical Society Quarterly y III (Oct. 1924), 215-37. 
8. Karel Boriwog (C. B.) Presl, Reliquiae Haenkeanae, Prague 
[1825-36], 2 vols. 
9. Malaspina had mentioned “the red pine, a tree much taller than the 
rest” in the vicinity of Monterey. See the California Historical Society 
Quarterly y III (Oct. 1924), 221. 
10. From Aylmer Bourke Lambert, A Description of the Genus Pinus 
(London, 1832), the description of the Taxodium semfervirens is quoted 
by Willis Linn Jepson in his The Silva of California (Berkeley, 1910), 
p. 138. 
11. Karl Heinrich Mertens, naturalist of the Luetke expedition, 1827. 
12. Heinrich Gustav Bongard (1786-1839), botanist at St. Peters¬ 
burg. 
13. Curtis’s Botanical Magazine . . . continued by John Sims, M.D., 
London, 1803, Vol. XVII. 
14. See “The Tobacco Collected by Archibald Menzies on the North¬ 
west Coast of America,” by Alice Eastwood, in Leaflets of Western Bot- 
any y Y ol. II,No. 6, April, 1938. Menzies’ first voyage was made in 1786, 
when he sailed on the Prince of Wales y commanded by Captain Colnett. 
The ship arrived at Nootka in July, 1787; and early in August, as they 
were leaving for Alaska, Captain Dixon met them just outside the harbor 
and persuaded them to accompany him to the Queen Charlotte Islands. 
15. “Observations sur la vegetation de L’ile de Sitcha,” St. Petersburg 
Academy of Sciences Memoirs, II (1833), 120-77, plates 1-6. 
16. Kotzebue’s own account of this expedition is given in his Entdeck- 
ungs-Reise in die Sud-See und der Berings-Strasse zur Erforschung einer 
nord-ostlichen Durchfahrt ... 1815,1816,1817 y und 1818 . .. auf dem 
