THE BEE-PASTURES 351 



its own peculiar climate and exposure, possess the 

 required conditions for the development of species 

 and families of plants widely varied. 



Next the plain there is, first, a series of smooth 

 hills, planted with a rich and showy vegetation 

 that differs but little from that of the plain itself 

 as if the edge of the plain had been lifted and bent 

 into flowing folds, with all its flowers in place, 

 only toned down a little as to their luxuriance, and 

 a few new species introduced, such as the hill lu 

 pines, mints, and gilias. The colors show finely 

 when thus held to view on the slopes; patches of 

 red, purple, blue, yellow, and white, blending 

 around the edges, the whole appearing at a little 

 distance like a map colored in sections. 



Above this lies the park and chaparral region, 

 with oaks, mostly evergreen, planted wide apart, 

 and blooming shrubs from three to ten feet high ; 

 manzanita and ceanothus of several species, mixed 

 with rhamnus, cercis, pickeringia, cherry, amelan- 

 chier, and adenostoma, in shaggy, interlocking 

 thickets, and many species of hosackia, clover, 

 monardella, castilleia, etc., in the openings. 



The main ranges send out spurs somewhat par 

 allel to their axes, inclosing level valleys, many of 

 them quite extensive, and containing a great pro 

 fusion of sun-loving bee-flowers in their wild state; 

 but these are, in great part, already lost to the 

 bees by cultivation. 



Nearer the coast are the giant forests of the red 

 woods, extending from near the Oregon line to 

 Santa Cruz. Beneath the cool, deep shade of these 

 majestic trees the ground is occupied by ferns, 



