genus and species, Calothyrsus calif ornicus, but it was Nuttall who recog¬ 
nized the true generic affinity of the tree and referred it to Aesculus. In 
California botany, Bottais commemorated in the name of our Farewell- 
to-spring, Godetia Bottae; and in ornithology he is remembered as the 
first collector of the California Road-runner. Botta did not pursue natural 
history as his life work but became interested in archaeology and his fame 
in that field rests on his excavation of the ruins of Nineveh. See “Early 
Naturalists in the Far West,” by Roland H. Alden and John D. IfiFt, in 
Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, XX (April 
3°> J 943 )> 3 L 3 2 * 
E. The original collection of the Knob-cone Pine, Pinus attenuate, 
was made by Theodor Hartweg in the Santa Cruz Mountains, not in the 
Sierra Nevada. According to Sargent, the pine Hartweg collected in Bear 
Valley was P. contorta var. Murrayana. See “Notes on West American 
Coniferae,” by J. G. Lemmon, in Erythea, I (Nov., 1893), 229-231; 
Charles Sprague Sargent, The Silva of North America y XI (1897), 9 1 * 
F. According to Sargent, the Lawson Cypress was first discovered by 
Mr. William Murray “on the south flanks of Mt. Shasta in California 
. . . in the autumn of 1854,” Sargent, Silva, X (1890), 120. However, 
the original specimens of the Lodgepole Pine, Pinus Murrayana, named 
in honor of Andrew Murray, were collected in the Siskiyou Mountains 
by Jeffrey. Sargent, Silva, XI (1897), 93 - 
