Additional Notes by John Thomas Howell 
A. That material of the Redwood was brought to Spain by Malaspina 
now appears most certain. Trees at Granada, because of their size and ap¬ 
parent age, must certainly have been grown from seed collected as early 
as the Malaspina Expedition. See “Sequoia sempervirens in Granada,” 
Madrono , I (Sept., 1929), 242. 
B. Kotzebue was in command of two Russian expeditions which vis¬ 
ited the west coast of North America, the first in the Rurik as described 
by Miss Eastwood which visited California in 1816, the second in the 
Predfriatie which visited San Francisco in 1824. Chamisso and Esch- 
scholtz were the naturalists in 1816, with Chamisso attending to the bo¬ 
tanical collections. In 1824, Eschscholtz alone was naturalist and it was 
from his own collections that he named such well-known California 
plants as the Yellow Sand Verbena, California Lilac and Coffee-berry. 
See “The Botanical Collections of Chamisso and Eschscholtz in Cali¬ 
fornia,” by Alice Eastwood, in Leaflets of Western Botany , IV (April 
28,1944), 17-21; MarinFlora, p. 29, by John Thomas Howell (1949). 
C. Among the trees listed by Miss Eastwood as having been named 
from specimens collected by David Douglas is the Monterey Pine. This 
well-known California pine received two names about the same time: 
Pinus radiata D. Don, the older and acceptable name, based on a collec¬ 
tion made by Thomas Coulter at Monterey; and Pinus insignis Douglas, 
published later and based on Douglas’ own collection. 
In this connection it is interesting to note the relation of Coulter and 
Douglas to the Santa Lucia Fir. Coulter was the first botanist to discover 
this remarkable endemic and it was perhaps he who told Douglas where 
it could be found. But when it came to the naming of it, Douglas came 
out ahead—that is why the tree is called Abies venusta (the name based 
on Douglas’ collection) and not Abies bracteata (the name based on Coul¬ 
ter’s collection). 
D. Although Thomas Nuttall is the author of the name Aesculus cali- 
fornica i that early botanical visitor to California did not make the original 
collection as is inferred by Miss Eastwood. The California Buckeye was 
first collected by Paolo Emilio Botta, naturalist on a French expedition 
which visited California in 1827. His material was the basis for a new 
