cupuLiFER^. 8ILYA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



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With its pale bark, its dense round head of Hght blue foliage, and its large acorns, Q 



Douglasii, which was discovered by the indefatigable and successful collector ^ whose name it helps to 

 commemorate, is one of the most beautiful of the California Oaks. Never forming forests, it is 

 scattered in innumerable numbers over foothills and high valleys, and, either alone on the hills or with 

 the statelier Quercus lohata in the valleys, gives them their characteristic park-like appearance. 



1 See ii. 94. 



