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ovoid cones two to four inches long, and the leaves, though 

 still only two in number, are three to four inches in length. 

 Leaving a wide gap ou the Marin, San Mateo and Santa 

 Cruz coast, this pine comes in sparsely again on Point 

 Pinos, where its relative, the Monterey Pine, Pinus 

 radiata, grasps and holds the promontories of the const from 

 Pescadero to San Simeon beach, displaying on its stout 

 branches circlets of sub-oval cones, four to seven inches in 

 length, while its leaves, increased to three in a sheatli, are 

 five to eight inches long. After a wider gap of two huudred 

 and seventy miles, the fourth species, Pinus Torreyana, is 

 met Avith ou the San Diego coast, stubbornly holding a posi- 

 tion on the bluffs of Del Mar, and, though but a corporal's 

 guard, and beaten into the clefts of the rocks or almost 



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overwhelmed with sand by old Neptune, strong arms are 

 upthrust, bearing aloft quantities of nearly orbicular cones 

 four to six inches in length, weighing two or three pounds 

 and containing seeds of unexampled size, three-fourths of an 

 inch long and half as wide, while the leaves of this lone pine 

 reach the highest limit of pine leaves both as regards size and 

 number in the fascicles— being composed of five leaves, each 

 of which are twelve to twenty inches long and over one- 

 sixteenth of an inch wide ! 



CALIFORNIAN HERB-LOIIE-V. 



By Ida M. Blochman. 



That odd, leafless shrub, the Ephedra CaUforiiica, which 

 on account of its hollow stems is called CanuUllo by the 

 Spanish, IS used by them, in the form of a tea, as a tonic 

 they say it acts on the blood, purifying it ' 



^ It is so highly esteemed as a medicine that it is gathered 

 m the mountains at the expense of considerable time and 

 trouble and carried long distances, to be used in valley and 

 canon homes. It is found in the Coast Kange as far north, 

 at least, as San Luis Obispo. 



The common Crohn Californicus, which is called El 



