Dean W. Taylor's investigation of California Geological Survey Specimens

Since Dean Taylor passed away in 2020, these data are to be considered archived and will not be regularly updated.

Please note that this database used to display specimens from CAS, DS, RSA and POM. However, since the creation of CCH2, the accession numbers of these collections have changed to barcodes. As a result, the accession in Dean's database no longer link to specimens. In the future, Dean's database will be updated to link his notes to the corrected CCH2 accession numbers for these records.

Henry Bolander
photo of party from Up and Down
Collection number: 1684
Current name: Ranunculus alismifolius Geyer ex Benth. var. alismellus A. Gray
Field Book name:
Field Book data: p. 257 Mt. Hoffman, near Camp 115, June 24, 1863, 10887 ft
Notes (Field Book): Ranunculus. Leaves entire. Fl. bright yellow. Wet places on hillside. Seen to near 12000 ft on Mt Dana
Collector: William H. Brewer
Collection date: Jun 25 1863
Taylor notes:
Accession numbers: UC9366 GH38379 POM268686
State: CA
County: Mariposa
Camp number:
Place: Mt. Hoffman
Location description: southwestern flanks of Mt. Hoffman, Yosemite National Park
Elevation (estimated): 9000 ft
Coordinates: 37.85 -119.51
Notes: Although the GH catalog has Brewer 1684 as a syntype, the protologue can be read to exclude Brewer's material.
Curatorial notes: "The protologue reads "Lake Tenayo and on Mount Dana, Sierra Nevada, to the height of 12,000 feet, Bolander""
Publication: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 7: 327. 1868.

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