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magnifica — the Shastanensis variety, which has dark bark instead 

 of red, as in the common form ; and last of all Fifius albicaulis, 

 sometimes dwarfed to a tree 2 or 3 feet high, although a hundred 

 years old. The photographs of Mount Shasta — 14,400 feet — 

 will show you how that splendid cone overlooks the whole 

 country for at least one hundred miles in every direction. Down by 

 the M 'Cloud Taxus brroifolia is abundant, never such a large yew, 

 however, as our T. baccata, but very beautiful, with its red berries 

 and dark branches sheltering the lovely Shasta and Humboldt 

 lilies, which grow tall and straight in the moist glades where the 

 sun seldom penetrates. I found here, for the first time, Cratcegus 

 Dm/glasit, the only hawthorn which grows in the western country, 

 although 400 or 500 species are known east of the Rockies. I 

 also saw a small mountain ash which I could not identify. The 

 brushwood is wild plum {Prunus subcordata), at this time covered 

 with fruit, much sought after by the Indians, the Californian 

 hazel {Corylus Calif ornica) — to me quite indistinguishable from 

 our own, and, of course, the universal manzanita scrub and alder. 

 While we rode with our host to " salt-licks," where the deer were 

 to be found in the early mornings, we got many lovely glimpses 

 of Mount Shasta towering above the surrounding forests. We 

 scrambled up banks of incredibly slippery pine needles to gather 

 the huge cones of the sugar pines, many of them 20 inches long : 

 these we brought home in sacks tied to our Mexican saddles. 

 Our host every year has new trails cut through the brush, and 

 this summer came on two enormous specimens of sugar pine and 

 yellow pine. My photograph of the latter was a failure, but you 

 ^\^ll see to what a gigantic size Pinus Lambertiana sometimes 

 grows. The summer climate of this Northern California country 

 is well-nigh perfect, six months of unbroken sunshine. 



I have a set of interesting photographs of "lumbering" in the 

 yellow pine forests of this country which may be of interest. 



Of our other expeditions far south into the Sierra Nevada and 

 Coast Range Mountains, and of the Sequoias and other trees we 

 saw, there is no time to speak now. 



I fear that my paper is little else than a list of trees seen by 

 us on our wanderings, but I hope my photographs may make up 

 to some extent for its other deficiencies. 



