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: 2163 Current name: Epilobium obcordatum A. Gray Field Book name: Field Book data: p. 321 August 28th Crossed the pass from Squaw Valley to Forest Hill. 8826 feet Notes (Field Book): Oenothera? near summit in sunny place. Fl. bright rose red. 8800 ft Collector: William H. Brewer Collection date: 28 August 1863 Taylor notes: "The protologue reads "In the Sierra Nevada, at Squaw Valley and Ebbett's Passes, alt. 8,000-8,500 feet-...[also found recently by Dr. Torrey]." Accession numbers: UC20082 GH54009 US321720 State: CA County: Placer Camp number: 142 Place: Squaw Valley Location description: pass just south of Granite Chief. head of presend day Squaw Creek, Squaw Valley Elevation (estimated): 8400 ft Coordinates: 39.19478 -120.28 Notes: "GH4009 Brewer 1997 and 2163 "mounted together, the two different collections impossible to distinguish" the collection was not make near Truckee (Knoxville, a mining tent camp ca. 4 miles southeast thereof) but on the pass south of Granite Chief" Curatorial notes: "the protologue reads "In the Sierra Nevada, at Squaw Valley and Ebbett's Passes, alt. 8,000-8,500 feet."" Publication: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 6: 532. 1865.