aliso of the Spanish Californians. Each of these explorers sought 
and found “the fountain of perennial adventure.” We envy and 
we honor them. 
♦Originally written for the Bulletin of the Garden Club of America; pub¬ 
lished in shortened form, January, 1954. 
♦♦Published in the December 1939 issue of the California Historical Society 
Quarterly. This was one of more than three hundred botanical writings by Alice 
Eastwood published during her lifetime and listed in Proceedings of the Cali¬ 
fornia Academy of Sciences (Fourth Series) Vol. XXV Alice Eastwood Semi- 
Centennial Publications , San Francisco , 'published by the Academy 1943-1949. 
