56 THE XUT CULTURIST. 



beneath, with none or few yellow scales ; male aments 

 one to three inches long, densely pubescent ; styles three, 

 stout, glabrous, divergent; fruiting involucre with stout 

 divergent spines (Fig. 11) one-half to one inch long, 



FIG. 10. LEAVES AND NUT OP CASTANOPSI8 CHKYSOPHYLLA. 



subverticillately many branched ; nut usually solitary, 

 obversely triangular, six lines long." " Geological Survey 

 of California," Botany, Vol. II, p. 100. 



"This handsome broad-leaved evergreen tree is in- 

 digenous to the elevated regions, from Monterey, Califor- 

 nia, northward to the Columbia river in Oregon. It is 

 also common in the Sierra Nevadas at elevations of six 



