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.

Collection number: 2091 Current name: Sorbus californica Greene Field Book name: Pyrus sambucifolia Cham. & Schlecht. Field Book data: p. 311 near Ebbett's Pass August 7th 1863 Notes (Field Book): Sorbus. Seen to summit of {ass. 6500 - 8500 ft Collector: William H. Brewer Collection date: 8-9 Aug 1863 Taylor notes: Accession numbers: UC13079 UC13082 GH 245062 State: CA County: Alpine Camp number: 130 Place: Ebbett's Pass Location description: Ebbett's Pass Road, in the vicinity of Silver Valley, near present day Lake Alpine on Highway 104, Ebbett's Pass Elevation (estimated): 8000 ft Coordinates: 38.48 -120 Notes: "Brewer 2091 is cited by G.N. Jones. J. Arnold Arbo. 20:39. 1939 as a syntype of S. californica E. Greene. The protologue of S. california E. Greene makes no specific reference to a type, and reads exactly "Common at middle elevations in the California" "Sierra, far below even the subalpine regions, and not remote from the heated plains of the interior..."" Curatorial notes: UC13079 is incorrectly labeled as having been collected by Henry N. Bolander Publication: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 23: 263. 1888.