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Excerpt from A Flora of Western Middle California
The first systematic treatise upon the plants of California was pre sented in the Botany of California, the first volume of which appeared in 1876, the second being published four years later. In these two volumes we have the first general account of the California ?ora. The work was based primarily upon a study of the plant collections of the California Geological Survey made by W. H. Brewer from 1860 to 1865 and later by H. N. Bolander, and also upon the rather considerable collections of the Pacific Railroad Surveys from 1851 to 1857. This material was supplemented by collections, some small, some considerable, made by resident collectors. The manuscript of the Polypetalae was produced by the combined labors of W. H. Brewer and Sereno Watson; the Gamopetalae were done by Asa Gray, while the second volume from the Apetalae to the Crypta gams was elaborated by Watson with the assistance of specialists in various groups.
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