Physical description: Unbound manuscript. There are holes in the upper left-hand corners from previous fastening
The pages are written in David Douglas's hand on rectos only. There are pencil annotations on the first page in a later hand, probably by the 1914 editors of Douglas's journals, with notes '1829?' and 'not Sabine, copy Douglas'
No previous foliation. The leaves were paginated on the upper right-hand corner of rectos during cataloguing
7 pages attached with ribbon, comprising descriptions of the genus Quercus, were transferred from this folder to RHS/Col/5/1/3/1
Summary of contents:
Descriptions of pines, with details of their habitat, characteristics, uses and references to other sources and authorities
The text begins (page 1): 'P. douglasii [Pseudotsuga menziesii], foliis solitariis planis subdistichis, strobilis ovatis pendulis, brecteolis excertis, 3-cuspitatis. Sabine in Tran. Hort. Soc. [Transactions of the Horticultural Society], vol. [the reference here is left blank; it appears that Joseph Sabine intended to publish the manuscript, but did not]. Flowers in April and May, fruit ripe in September. Leaves solitary, flat, entire, imperfectly two-ranked, blunt at the apex, dark shining green above, glaucous underneath, about an inch long'
The text ends (page 35) '[Pinus menziesii [Picea sitchensis] [...] So far as Mr Douglas' observations went [in RHS/Col/5/2/3/1, the text reads: 'so far as my observations went'], this is exclusively confined to the high mountains skirting the coast from Arguilar's River [Umpqua River, Oregon, United States of America] in 43° north lat. [latitude] to the 49°, and was not seen to the east of 121°W long. [longitude]. It is to be regretted that all the seeds of this truly magnificent tree were lost and could not then be replaced'
Extent
1 folder
Is part of
RHS archive: plant collector papers
Repository
Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library
Copyright
Royal Horticultural Society
Credit Line
RHS Lindley Collections
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Non-commercial use with attribution permitted (CC BY-NC 4.0)