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
Henry Bolander
Collection number: 4766
Current name: Calamagrostis crassiglumis Thurb.
Field Book name: Deyeuxia crassiglumis
Field Book data:
Notes (Field Book): Swamps on Little Flats [Roots long and creeping 4-8 inches high] collected by me in wet meadows close to the seacoast in Mendocino County (Bolander letter)
Collector: Henry N. Bolander
Collection date: May-Jun 1866
Taylor notes: "p. 512 of the field book typescript under the heading "Enumeration of Bolander's Grasses" lists this as Calamagrostis lapponica Trin [Bolander in one of this notes seems to be quite satisfied with this determination. Please look at this as it is your pet"
Accession numbers: UC37772 MO2958599 MO2958601 US556721 NY346268 GH24591 MO2958602
State: CA
County: Mendocino
Camp number:
Place: Mendocino
Location description: present day village of Mendocino
Elevation (estimated): 100 ft
Coordinates: 39.31 -123.79424
Notes: "Little Flats in the SMASH databsed pertains to a geomorphic descriptor, not to an established placename; the NY This NY specimen has a label from herb. G. V. Nash rather than an original Bolander label." "the protologue reads" Swamps, Mendocino County, Bolander, n. 4766, 4787.""
Curatorial notes: "NOTE: need to cross check against Gray Herbarium Archives "Spring 1866 -- 39 pages; plants numbered 4633-6462""
Publication: in S. Watson, Geol. Surv. Calif., Bot. 2:281. 1880.

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