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different families frequently agree so closely in their habit, that flowers or fruit 

 alone can serve as reliable diagnostic features. The shrubs and trees of the scrub 

 country vary very greatly in height, many species of Eucalyptus vying with those of 

 the fertile country. . . .' Schomburgk's description agrees with this in essentials. 



Fig. 301. Sclerophyllous flora of California. Dendromecon rigidum, Benth. (Papaveraceae). 

 Natural size. From a specimen in Prof. Dudley's Herbarium. 



5. SCLEROPHYLLOUS WOODLAND IN CALIFORNIA. 



The Californian littoral is stocked chiefly with evergreen shrubs, among 

 which isolated trees raise themselves. The most important of the trees, 

 which in dry situations occur also as shrubs, are Ouercus agrifolia, Nee, 

 0. chrysolepis, Liebm. (Figs. 269, 275), Q. dumosa, Nutt. (Fig. 300, 6), O. 

 oblongifolia, Torr., and several others, all of them evergreen species having 



