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: 6028 Current name: Juncus covillei Piper var. obtusatus (Engelm.) C. L. Hitchc. Field Book name: Juncus obtusatus Engelm. Field Book data: p. 452 Sierras from June 6th to Sept., 1866 Notes (Field Book): Juncus. Big Tree Grove Collector: Henry N. Bolander Collection date: 25 Jul 1866 Taylor notes: "the protologue reads "Near the Big Tree Grove, Mariposa, California, growing in large tufts 2-3 feet in diameter, on the sandy banks of streamlets, alt. 6,500 ft, H. Bolander, fl. in July"" Accession numbers: UC2584 UC311690 DAO NY247689 DS75211 MO01777612 NY247686 CAS106383 NY247690 NY247687 NY247688 State: CA County: Mariposa Camp number: Place: Mariposa Grove Location description: Mariposa Grove, near present day Wawona, southwesterly Yosemite National Park Elevation (estimated): 6500 ft Coordinates: 37.50221 -119.60964 Notes: UC311690 - Engelman (Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 2: 441. 1866) distributed this collection as Hb. norm no. 42. DAO lists a Bolander collection as type material with the Hb. norm. no. 25 also MO3266543 Curatorial notes: Publication: Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 2: 495. 1868.