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: 4861 Current name: Melica aristata Bolander Field Book name: Melica aristata Thurber Field Book data: Notes (Field Book): Yosemite Valley Collector: Henry N. Bolander Collection date: 6 Jun-Sep 1866 Taylor notes: Accession numbers: UC38818 US556120 CAS747 NY381313 MO209602 State: CA County: Mariposa Camp number: Place: Yosemite Valley Location description: Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, placed near the present day location of Yosemite Village at the base of Yosemite Falls Elevation (estimated): 4000 ft Coordinates: 37.75 -119.59 Notes: "p. 515 of the field book typescript lists this as "No. 53 of Bolander sets same as Bolander 31" - any distributed set material with either numbers may be original material of M. aristata" cited by G. Thurber, Poaceae, in Serano Watson, Botany of California 2:305. 1880. CAS747 bears the nomen M. glauca Bol. in their types database (a name prempted by Melica glauca F.W.Schultz 1862) Curatorial notes: "NOTE: need to cross check against Gray Herbarium Archives "Spring 1866 -- 39 pages; plants numbered 4633-6462"" Publication: Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 4:103. 1870