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Berkeley, Jan. 9, 1901
--Dr. A.M. Carpenter tells me that Pinus monticola is called Bastard Sugar Pine in Nevada Co. he also offers "Willow Pine" as an alternative name for Digger Pine. All of Carpenter's Collection foor the University came from the Bowman Dam group of Lakes, north and a little to the east of Emigrant Gap _
I related a story of Greene's peculiarity: Carpenter laughed and exclaimed: "Oh! Greene was most delightfully irregular!" (See "Notebook on Botanists of Cal. etc", 28
_________________________ _ This region is in Nevada Co., but some of Carpenter's labels read: "Placer Co. Aug.-Oct. 1892", as on Orthocarpus lacerus (U.C. herb).
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Mt. Tamalpais, Mar. 9 1901.
No. 1190. - Winter buds of Buckeye, scales. (discarded) No. 1191 - Sanicula laciniata. H _ [and] A. Ross Valley Trail, about 600 ft. Bigelovia arborescens - 8 ft. high-near Cascades. Plentiful to top of Mt.
Yerba Santa="Wild Peach", on account of the foliage-Mr. Evans.
No. 1192. - Rhododendron occidentale Gray Euonymus occid. Branching umbellate winter buds clustered at ends of branches, giving rise to a umbel of shoots the next season, the shoots not very unequal--Cascades. Leaves beautifully involute.
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