26 Early Botanical Explorers on the Pacific Coast 
collections, and the specimens were generally either too old or 
too young for satisfactory naming. All that could be identified 
from his descriptions in his journal were named by myself. 
Menzies was the first to collect the Coast Redwood which he 
found at Santa Cruz. A * Specimens were sent to Lambert and 
named by him Taxodium sempervirens . 10 One of them is in the 
Herbarium of the British Museum, where I had the privilege of 
seeing it. Menzies discovered the Douglas Spruce on the shores 
of NootkaSoundin 1792, and also the Nootka Cypress ( Chamae- 
cy'parts nootkatensis) y the Madrono ( Arbutus Menziesit) near 
Vancouver j and the California Laurel ( Umbellularia calif or- 
nica) in California. At Sitka he was the first to collect the Sitka 
Spruce ( Piceasitchensis) , the Oregon Cedar [Thuja plicata) and 
the Hemlock Spruce ( Tsuga Mertensiana) . These were not 
named from Menzies’ specimens, but from those of Mertens 11 by 
Bongard. 12 Menzies’ specimens were not always named at once, 
and many first collected by him were named from collections 
made later by others. Indeed, some of Menzies’ specimens today 
are in the Herbarium of the British Museum still unnamed. I feel 
sure that from seeds of the Yellow Bush Lupine collected by him, 
the plants were raised to which the name Eupinus arboreus was 
given by Sims in the Botanical Magazine , plate 682, with locality 
unknown. 13 About the same time it was growing in the Botanic 
Garden at Oxford. The fruiting specimen collected by Menzies 
was later named Eupinus macrocarpus y showing that it was in 
fruit. There has been some mystery about the tobacco which he 
♦Notes “A” to “F” have been added by John Thomas Howell. 
